ubuntu · CVE-2016-9601

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-12-31 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:14:23 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9601 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (jbig2dec), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 9, released 4, ignored 1.

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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