CVE-2017-9216

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 24 May 2017, 04:56
Last modified:11 Sept 2024, 16:29

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
36/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.89% LOW
1% probability -0.54%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

24 May 2017, 04:56
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
11 Sept 2024, 16:29
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.89%• Percentile: 76%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-476•NULL Pointer Dereference

    The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

  • artifex•jbig2dec

    0.13

  • debian•debian_linux

    9.0

References (4)