CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-9216

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: May 24, 2017 | Modified: Sep 11, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

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.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Jbig2dec Artifex 0.13 (including) 0.13 (including)
Jbig2dec Ubuntu artful *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu cosmic *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu disco *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu eoan *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu groovy *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu hirsute *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu impish *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu kinetic *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu precise/esm *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu trusty *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu upstream *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu xenial *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu yakkety *
Jbig2dec Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References