CVE-2016-9601

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.

• CWE-190
• CWE-119

• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817Third Party Advisory
• http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817Third Party Advisory

Published

Apr 24, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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