CVE-2017-9216: Artifex JBIG2DEC

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Artifex JBIG2DEC: version 0.13 only
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only

Published 2017-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.