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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9601

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 jbig2dec

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.13-4"}]}]

Debian:13 jbig2dec

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.13-4"}]}]

Debian:14 jbig2dec

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.13-4"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org