CVE-2016-9601 MEDIUM

CVE-2016-9601

Vendor Unspecified
Product ghostscript
Weakness CWE-190
Published April 23, 2018
Last update August 6, 2024

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 23, 2018 CVE published
August 6, 2024 Record updated