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Debian Wheezy: DLA-942-1 Critical: jbig2dec Buffer Over-read Threat

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
The jbig2dec patch enhances security by resolving integer overflow vulnerabilities that may lead to system failures and unauthorized data access. An upgrade is strongly advised.
CVE-2017-7885 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, b...

Summary

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 service (application crash) or possibly
execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2017-7976
Artifex jbig2dec 0.13 allows out-of-bounds writes and reads because
of an integer overflow in the jbig2_image_compose function in
jbig2_image.c during operations on a crafted .jb2 file, leading
to a denial of service (application crash) or disclosure of
sensitive information from process memory.

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
0.13-4~deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your jbig2dec packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



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Package: jbig2dec
Version: 0.13-4~deb7u2
CVE ID: CVE-2017-7885 CVE-2017-7975 CVE-2017-7976

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