CVE-2017-7885

high

Published 2017-04-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

Description

Artifex jbig2dec 0.13 has a heap-based buffer over-read leading to denial of service (application crash) or disclosure of sensitive information from process memory, because of an integer overflow in the jbig2_decode_symbol_dict function in jbig2_symbol_dict.c in libjbig2dec.a during operation on a crafted .jb2 file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

70%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0.13-4.1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0.13-4.1`
debian	forky	fixed	`0.13-4.1`
debian	sid	fixed	`0.13-4.1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0.13-4.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
artifex	jbig2dec	`0.13`

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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