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CVE-2017-9216

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

libjbig2dec.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.

Affected products

• Artifex Jbig2Dec: 0.13
• Debian Linux: 9.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98680
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934
• https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ebffb1d96ba0cacec23016eccb4047dab365853
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98680
• https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.html

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