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found in the JBIG2 decoder library,\nwhich may lead to lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary\ncode if a malformed image file (usually embedded in a PDF document) is\nopened (CVE-2016-9601).\n\nArtifex jbig2dec has a heap-based buffer over-read leading to denial of\nservice (application crash) because of an integer overflow in the\njbig2_decode_symbol_dict function in jbig2_symbol_dict.c in libjbig2dec.a\nduring operation on a crafted .jb2 file (CVE-2017-7885).\n\nArtifex jbig2dec allows out-of-bounds writes because of an integer\noverflow in the jbig2_build_huffman_table function in jbig2_huffman.c\nduring operations on a crafted JBIG2 file, leading to a denial of service\n(application crash) or possibly execution of arbitrary code\n(CVE-2017-7975).\n\nArtifex jbig2dec allows out-of-bounds writes and reads because of an\ninteger overflow in the jbig2_image_compose function in jbig2_image.c\nduring operations on a crafted .jb2 file, leading to a denial of service\n(application crash) (CVE-2017-7976).\n","status":"published","published":"2017-07-13T09:10:46Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:23:46.091881822Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:40.103088Z"},{"id":"USN-3297-1","title":"jbig2dec vulnerabilities","description":"Bingchang Liu discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when\ndecoding malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked\ninto processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker\ncould cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or\npossibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04\nLTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9601)\n\nIt was discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when decoding\nmalformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into\nprocessing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker could\ncause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly\ndisclose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-7885)\n\nJiaqi Peng discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when\ndecoding malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked\ninto processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker\ncould cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or\npossibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7975)\n\nDai Ge discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when decoding\nmalformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into\nprocessing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker could\ncause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly\ndisclose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-7976)\n","status":"published","published":"2017-05-24T11:29:08Z","modified":"2026-04-22T09:35:34.520171Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:13.496563Z"}]}}