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CVE-2017-7975

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Artifex jbig2dec 0.13, as used in Ghostscript, allows out-of-bounds writes because of an integer overflow in the jbig2_build_huffman_table function in jbig2_huffman.c during operations on a crafted JBIG2 file, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execution of arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Artifex Jbig2Dec: 0.13

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3855
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697693
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-10
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3855
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697693
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-10

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