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Ubuntu: USN-5405-1 (CVE-2017-9216): jbig2dec vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5405-1 (CVE-2017-9216): jbig2dec vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/24/2017
Created
05/10/2022
Added
05/06/2022
Modified
11/27/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-jbig2dec
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libjbig2dec0

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