What is CVE-2017-7975?

CVE-2017-7975 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Jbig2dec, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-04-19.

How severe is CVE-2017-7975?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Artifex Jbig2dec

CVE-2017-7975

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 servic…

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

EPSS: 0.017 (73.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Artifex Jbig2dec — versions 0.13
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7975?: CVE-2017-7975 is a high-severity vulnerability in Artifex Jbig2dec, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-04-19.
How severe is CVE-2017-7975?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.