CVE-2016-9601CWE-190

ghostscript before version 9.21 is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow that was found in the ghostscript jbig2_decode_gray_scale_image function which is…

Medium · published April 23, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
77.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

ghostscript before version 9.21 is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow that was found in the ghostscript jbig2_decode_gray_scale_image function which is used to decode halftone segments in a JBIG2 image. A document (PostScript or PDF) with an embedded, specially crafted, jbig2 image could trigger a segmentation fault in ghostscript.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01715 · 77.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Published
2018-04-23T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 APR 21:00Z
    ghostscript before version 9.21 is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow that was found in the ghostscript jbig2_decode_gray_scale_image function which is…
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