{"id":"CVE-2017-7975","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-7975","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:56:21.277Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2017-04-19T16:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:25:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-190"],"affected":["artifex/jbig2dec"],"epss":{"score":0.01672,"percentile":0.76696,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.02683,"percentile":0.8511},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.01672,"percentile":0.75789}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.67%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3855","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697693","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-10","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3855","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697693","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-10","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7975","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}