debian · CVE-2016-9601

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:58:16 GMT

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CVE-2016-9601 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (jbig2dec), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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