CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-9601.md

CVE-2016-9601

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457

Github

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