CVE-2017-9216 (GCVE-0-2017-9216)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-24 04:56 – Updated: 2024-09-11 16:29
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2017-05-24 00:00
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