Security advisory

{
  "id": "9e38c1edbd950e45842da645f9ff28d9d059c0e00d5f68f28f845f8ea3fa92a5",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9216",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-9216",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-9216",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-9216",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-9216"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/artifexsoftware/jbig2dec",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "e740c549e59a3a58dca615478dc5dcee3fb915d8"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "e740c549e59a3a58dca615478dc5dcee3fb915d8"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:jbig2dec:0.13:*:*:*:*:gpl_ghostscript:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.13"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.13"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:artifex:jbig2dec:0.13:*:*:*:*:mupdf:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.13"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.13"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.13"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9216.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:20.920485984Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ebffb1d96ba0cacec23016eccb4047dab365853",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00023.html",
        "https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-9216",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430377,
  "published_at": "2017-05-24T05:29:00.193+00:00"
}