CVE-2016-9601
ghostscript before version 9.21 is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow that was found in the ghostscript…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ghostscript 0.14
References (6)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9601 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 97095 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=jbig2dec.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201706-24 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- DSA-3817 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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