CVE-2009-0196: Ghostscript

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the big2_decode_symbol_dict function (jbig2_symbol_dict.c) in the JBIG2 decoding library (jbig2dec) in Ghostscript 8.64, and probably earlier versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with a JBIG2 symbol dictionary segment with a large run length value.

Affected products

• Ghostscript Ghostscript: up to and including 8.64; version 0 only; version 5.50 only; version 7.07 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.15 only; …

Published 2009-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.