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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-39919 (CVE-2026-39919)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-09-16 00:00 – Updated: 2026-09-21 18:36 – Source website

Details

Ghostscript before 10.08.0 contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 output adapter (base/sjpx_openjpeg.c) that allows attackers to cause memory corruption by supplying a crafted PDF containing a JPEG 2000 image with mismatched component subsampling factors. When image components declare different subsampling values, the non-samescale sub-byte-depth output path allocates a row buffer sized for packed output but writes a full byte per output column regardless of bit depth, overflowing the allocation and corrupting internal chunk-allocator metadata to achieve code execution.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

9.3 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-39919	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-39919	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8791-1	ADVISORY

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CVE-2026-39919 (GCVE-0-2026-39919)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-15 14:26 – Updated: 2026-09-20 00:35 X_Open Source

Title

Ghostscript < 10.08.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via JPEG 2000 Output Adapter

Summary

Severity

9.3 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-20 00:26 UTC

CWE

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downl…	release-notes
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commi…	patch
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709666	issue-tracking
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghostscript-…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Artifex Software	Ghostscript	Affected: 0 , < 10.08.0 (custom)

Date Public

2026-09-08 00:00

Credits

Alex Thomas, Wordfence Wordfence Argus

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USN-8791-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2026-39919)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-09-21 12:51 – Updated: 2026-09-21 12:51 – Source website

Summary

ghostscript vulnerability

Details

It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled JPEG 2000 image components with mismatched subsampling factors. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ghostscript to crash or execute arbitrary code if it opened a specially crafted file.

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8791-1	ADVISORY
	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-39919	REPORT

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