Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-9601
CVE-2016-9601
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.
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Affected products
16- Range: <9.21
- osv-coords14 versionspkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript-library&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript-library&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript-library&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4
< 9.15-20.1+ 13 more
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-22.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.62-32.47.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.62-32.47.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.62-32.47.7.1
- unspecified/ghostscriptv5Range: ghostscript 0.14
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- www.securityfocus.com/bid/97095nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-24nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3817nvdThird Party Advisory
- git.ghostscript.comnvd
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