CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.3. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2016-9601
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.3
EPSS
1.81%
Original NVD 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.
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