CVE-2017-9216

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2017-9216 · Published 24/05/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-9216 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting jbig2dec (artifex).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.5%, higher than 89.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
jbig2dec artifex	`= 0.13`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/98680 · Third Party Advisory
bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
git.ghostscript.com
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.html · Mailing List

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

jbig2dec

artifex

= 0.13

No fix yet

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