VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-9601

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.75%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.75%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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 3.0: 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 1.75% probability · 77th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-190, CWE-119
Affected: artifex/gpl ghostscript · artifex/jbig2dec · debian/debian linux
Source: secalert@redhat.com

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817Third Party Advisory
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817Third Party Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.