CVE-2017-9216 Information

Description

libjbig2dec.a in Artifex jbig2dec 0.13 as used in MuPDF and Ghostscript has a NULL pointer dereference in the jbig2_huffman_get function in jbig2_huffman.c. For example the jbig2dec utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid file.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98680 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934

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

6.5