CVE-2026-39919 PUBLISHED

Ghostscript < 10.08.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via JPEG 2000 Output Adapter

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 07.04.2026 Published: 15.09.2026 Updated: 15.09.2026

Ghostscript before 10.08.0 contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 output adapter (base/sjpx_openjpeg.c) that allows attackers to cause memory corruption by supplying a crafted PDF containing a JPEG 2000 image with mismatched component subsampling factors. When image components declare different subsampling values, the non-samescale sub-byte-depth output path allocates a row buffer sized for packed output but writes a full byte per output column regardless of bit depth, overflowing the allocation and corrupting internal chunk-allocator metadata to achieve code execution.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor Artifex Software
Product Ghostscript
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 10.08.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Alex Thomas, Wordfence finder
  • Wordfence Argus finder

References

Problem Types

  • Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE