CVE-2016-9601
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 1.8%
exploitation probability
1.8%top 23% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
unspecified · ghostscriptReferences
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095