CVE-2017-7975 Information

Description

Artifex jbig2dec 0.13 as used in Ghostscript allows out-of-bounds writes because of an integer overflow in the jbig2_build_huffman_table function in jbig2_huffman.c during operations on a crafted JBIG2 file leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execution of arbitrary code.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3855 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697693 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-10

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8