CVE-2017-7975

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-03-27
CWE:
CWE-190
Bugzilla:
1443940: CVE-2017-7975 jbig2dec: Integer overflow in jbig2_build_huffman_table allows OOB write

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2017-7975 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 5.6
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 ghostscript Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ghostscript Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ghostscript Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ghostscript Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Jiaqi Peng (Chinese Academy of Sciences) for reporting this issue.

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