Is CVE-2017-7975 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2017-7975 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2017-7975?

CVE-2017-7975 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2017-7975?

CVE-2017-7975 has an EPSS score of 1.67% (74th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2017-7975?

Upgrade jbig2dec on debian 11 to 0.13-4.1 or later. Fixes are available for 3 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2017-7975

HIGHEPSS 74th pctl

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

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.

CWE-190Integer Overflow

How to fix

Remediation Available

jbig2decDebian

Fixed in:0.13-4.1CVE-2017-7975

jbig2decUbuntu

Fixed in:0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1USN-3297-1

Fixed in:0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1USN-3297-1

libjbig2dec0Ubuntu

Fixed in:0.11+20120125-1ubuntu1.1USN-3297-1

Fixed in:0.12+20150918-1ubuntu0.1USN-3297-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.67%probability of exploitation in 30 days

74thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 74% of all known CVEs.

References

Issue Tracking1

bugs.ghostscript.com

Other references2

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-190 (Integer Overflow) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2020-16040	Medium	6.5	100%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-11477	High	7.5	99%	-	Fix
CVE-2023-44443	High	7.8	94%	-	Fix
CVE-2014-0569	High	9.3	90%	-	-
CVE-2017-3599	High	7.5	90%	-	Fix
CVE-2023-21716	Critical	9.8	82%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-05-13.