SB2017012514 - Fedora 24 update for ghostscript
Published: January 25, 2017 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017012514
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9601)
CWE-ID: CWE-190 - Integer overflow
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow when processing images within jbig2dec library. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted image file to application, using the vulnerable library, and crash it.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.