UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7975

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2017-7975
Downstream
USN-3297-1
Published: 19 Apr 2017, 00:00
Last modified:22 Apr 2026, 11:33

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.8 HIGH
3.0 (osv_ubuntu)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Apr 2017, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2026, 11:33
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Artifex 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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Systems

  • ubuntu•jbig2dec

    < 0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1 | < 0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1

References (3)