Vulnerability CVE-2016-9601: Information
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.
Severity: MEDIUM (5.5) Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Fixed packages
Package name | Branch | Fixed in version | Version from repository | Errata ID | Task # | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ghostscript | sisyphus | 9.25-alt1 | 10.01.1-alt2 | ALT-PU-2018-2344-1 | 213220 | Fixed |
| ghostscript | p10 | 9.25-alt1 | 10.01.1-alt2 | ALT-PU-2018-2344-1 | 213220 | Fixed |
| ghostscript | p9 | 9.25-alt1 | 9.27-alt1.M90P.1 | ALT-PU-2018-2344-1 | 213220 | Fixed |
| ghostscript | c10f1 | 9.25-alt1 | 9.54.0-alt3 | ALT-PU-2018-2344-1 | 213220 | Fixed |
| ghostscript | c9f2 | 9.25-alt1 | 9.27-alt1.M90P.1 | ALT-PU-2018-2344-1 | 213220 | Fixed |
| jbig2dec | sisyphus | 0.19-alt1 | 0.19-alt1 | ALT-PU-2020-3377-1 | 262183 | Fixed |
| jbig2dec | p10 | 0.19-alt1 | 0.19-alt1 | ALT-PU-2020-3377-1 | 262183 | Fixed |
| jbig2dec | p9 | 0.19-alt1 | 0.19-alt1 | ALT-PU-2020-3413-1 | 262186 | Fixed |
| jbig2dec | c10f1 | 0.19-alt1 | 0.19-alt1 | ALT-PU-2020-3377-1 | 262183 | Fixed |
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
Hyperlink | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601 |
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| https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457 |
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| DSA-3817 |
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| GLSA-201706-24 |
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| 97095 |
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| http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092 |