Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9601

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-04-23 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:59:02
Assigner redhat
CVSS score 5.3
State PUBLISHED

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.