CVE-2016-9601

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

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Description

ghostscript before version 9.21 is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow that was found in the ghostscript jbig2_decode_gray_scale_image function which is used to decode halftone segments in a JBIG2 image. A document (PostScript or PDF) with an embedded, specially crafted, jbig2 image could trigger a segmentation fault in ghostscript.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9601

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9601.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0.13-4`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0.13-4`
debian	forky	fixed	`0.13-4`
debian	sid	fixed	`0.13-4`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0.13-4`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9601.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9601

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.