FKIE_CVE-2017-9216

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-05-24 05:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:27
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
libjbig2dec.a in Artifex jbig2dec 0.13, as used in MuPDF and Ghostscript, has a NULL pointer dereference in the jbig2_huffman_get function in jbig2_huffman.c. For example, the jbig2dec utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98680Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ebffb1d96ba0cacec23016eccb4047dab365853
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98680Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
artifex jbig2dec 0.13
artifex jbig2dec 0.13
debian debian_linux 9.0
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