CVE-2017-7975: Artifex JBIG2DEC

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Artifex JBIG2DEC: version 0.13 only

Published 2017-04-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.