cve/2016/CVE-2016-9601.md

### [CVE-2016-9601](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9601)
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### Description

ghostscript before version 9.21 is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow that was found in the ghostscript jbig2_decode_gray_scale_image function which is used to decode halftone segments in a JBIG2 image. A document (PostScript or PDF) with an embedded, specially crafted, jbig2 image could trigger a segmentation fault in ghostscript.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697457

#### Github
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