SB2017012514 - Fedora 24 update for ghostscript
Published: January 25, 2017 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017012514
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 security vulnerability.
1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9601)
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.