CVE-2016-9601 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5