CVE-2016-9601

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-9601
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-04-24T01:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-09T23:20:39
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:gpl_ghostscript:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 9.21
cpe:2.3:a:artifex:jbig2dec:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 0.13
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092 Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9601
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9601
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:13:28 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 05:32:37 2018-04-24T01:29Z 2018-04-24T01:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 05:32:37 2019-10-09T23:20:39 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 05:32:37 Modified Vulnerability Status updated