Ghostscript < 10.08.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via JPEG 2000 Output Adapter
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.3epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 59% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Ghostscript before 10.08.0 contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 output adapter (base/sjpx_openjpeg.c) that allows attackers to cause memory corruption by supplying a crafted PDF containing a JPEG 2000 image with mismatched component subsampling factors. When image components declare different subsampling values, the non-samescale sub-byte-depth output path allocates a row buffer sized for packed output but writes a full byte per output column regardless of bit depth, overflowing the allocation and corrupting internal chunk-allocator metadata to achieve code execution.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Artifex Software · GhostscriptReferences
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709666https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/0a8bf88e39db07b0751a58d6ec1cf992073e4dc1https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs10080https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghostscript-heap-buffer-overflow-via-jpeg-2000-output-adapter