suse · CVE-2016-9601

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 13:48:03 UTC Updated: 2025-03-25 01:05:15 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9601 severity low: SUSE including 18 source package names (ghostscript-9.15-22.1, ghostscript-9.25-23.13.1, …), 68 product×package rows across 26 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2, … (26 product lines)): Fixed 68.

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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