Heap Based Buffer Overflow in Ghostscript's jbig2_decode_gray_scale_image Function

CVE-2016-9601 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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