CVE-2017-7975

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-7975
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-04-19 16:59:00 UTC
Updated2017-11-04 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionArtifex jbig2dec 0.13, as used in Ghostscript, allows out-of-bounds writes because of an integer overflow in the jbig2_build_huffman_table function in jbig2_huffman.c during operations on a crafted JBIG2 file, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execution of arbitrary code.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Artifex Jbig2dec 0.13 All All All
Application Artifex Jbig2dec 0.13 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 697693 – jbig2dec-0.13 Out-of-Bound Memory Write Vulnerability due to Integer Overflow in function jbig2_build_huffman_table MISC bugs.ghostscript.com Issue Tracking
jbig2dec: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code (GLSA 201708-10) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3855-1 jbig2dec DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 671112 EulerOS Security Update for ghostscript (EulerOS-SA-2019-2370)
  • 710546 Gentoo Linux jbig2dec User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Vulnerability (GLSA 201708-10)
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