CVE-2017-9216

MEDIUM

Artifex jbig2dec 0.13 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

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 (4)

[Patch] https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ebffb1d96ba0cacec23016eccb4047dab365853

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98680

[Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0143

EPSS Percentile 80.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (4)

n/a/n/a

artifex/jbig2dec

artifex/jbig2dec

debian/debian_linux

Published May 24, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026