Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published May 24, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-9216
CVE-2017-9216
Description
libjbig2dec.a in Artifex jbig2dec 0.13, as used in MuPDF and Ghostscript, has a NULL pointer dereference in the jbig2_huffman_get function in jbig2_huffman.c. For example, the jbig2dec utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid file.
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Affected products
16- osv-coords13 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/ghostscript&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/ghostscript&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg: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
< 9.54.0-2.2+ 12 more
- (no CPE)range: < 9.54.0-2.2
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.15-23.7.1
- (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
Patches
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References
4- bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cginvdExploitPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/98680nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- git.ghostscript.comnvd
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