CVE-2017-9216

NameCVE-2017-9216
Descriptionlibjbig2dec.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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2796-1, ELA-504-1
Debian Bugs863279

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
jbig2dec (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.13-4~deb8u3fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch0.13-4.1+deb9u1fixed
buster0.16-1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye0.19-2fixed
bookworm0.19-3fixed
sid, trixie0.20-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
jbig2decsourcejessie0.13-4~deb8u3ELA-504-1
jbig2decsourcestretch0.13-4.1+deb9u1DLA-2796-1
jbig2decsource(unstable)0.13-5863279

Notes

[jessie] - jbig2dec <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - jbig2dec <no-dsa> (Minor issue, can be fixed in a future update)
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934
Fixed by: https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=3ebffb1d96ba0cacec23016eccb4047dab365853

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