CVE-2017-7975

high

Published 2017-04-19 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.13-4.1`
sid	Fixed	`0.13-4.1`
forky	Fixed	`0.13-4.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.13-4.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.13-4.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
artifex	jbig2dec	`0.13`

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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