CVE-2016-9601

Publication date 31 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
jbig2dec	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 0.13-2ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
jbig2dec	Upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=1369359f21a1c8a055cc745f920b17fbc3f30efd Upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092 Upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=9d2c4f3bdb0bd003deae788e7187c0f86e624544

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE-2016-9601

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Status

Patch details

Severity score breakdown

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