Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9601

5.3
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date April 24, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory