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CVE-2017-7976 (GCVE-0-2017-7976)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-19 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:19
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Summary
Artifex jbig2dec 0.13 allows out-of-bounds writes and reads because of an integer overflow in the jbig2_image_compose function in jbig2_image.c during operations on a crafted .jb2 file, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or disclosure of sensitive information from process memory.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697683 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3855 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-10 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2017-04-19 00:00
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