PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-12-31
Candidate: CVE-2016-9601
PublicDate: 2018-04-24 01:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9601
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3297-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850497
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Bingchang Liu
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.5 MEDIUM]

Patches_jbig2dec:
 upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=1369359f21a1c8a055cc745f920b17fbc3f30efd (bp)
 upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
 upstream: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git;a=commit;h=9d2c4f3bdb0bd003deae788e7187c0f86e624544
upstream_jbig2dec: released (0.13-4)
precise_jbig2dec: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_jbig2dec: ignored (end of ESM support, was needed)
trusty_jbig2dec: released (0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1)
trusty/esm_jbig2dec: released (0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_jbig2dec: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_jbig2dec: DNE
xenial_jbig2dec: released (0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1)
esm-infra/xenial_jbig2dec: released (0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1)
yakkety_jbig2dec: released (0.13-2ubuntu0.1)
zesty_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4)
artful_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4.1)
bionic_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4.1)
cosmic_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4.1)
disco_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4.1)
eoan_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4.1)
focal_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4.1)
groovy_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4.1)
hirsute_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4.1)
devel_jbig2dec: not-affected (0.13-4.1)