{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9601","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-22T11:48:16.545909Z","published":"2016-12-31T00:00:00Z","related":["USN-3297-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2016-9601"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9601"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3297-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9601"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"jbig2dec","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/jbig2dec@0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1"}]}],"versions":["0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"jbig2dec"},{"binary_version":"0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1","binary_name":"libjbig2dec0"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9601.json"}},{"package":{"name":"jbig2dec","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/jbig2dec@0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1"}]}],"versions":["0.12-2","0.12+20150918-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1","binary_name":"jbig2dec"},{"binary_version":"0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1","binary_name":"libjbig2dec0"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9601.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}