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LIN6-14510 : Security Advisory - ghostscript - CVE-2016-9601

Created: May 1, 2018    Updated: Aug 4, 2019
Resolved Date: Mar 12, 2019
Found In Version: 6.0.0.36
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Userspace

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9601
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