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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2018-04-23T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:59:02.237Z

Reserved: 2016-11-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-9601

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-24T01:29:00.270

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:01:29.390

Link: CVE-2016-9601

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-12-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-9601 - Bugzilla