Description
Little CMS (lcms2) before 2.5, as used in OpenJDK 7 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to (1) cmsStageAllocLabV2ToV4curves, (2) cmsPipelineDup, (3) cmsAllocProfileSequenceDescription, (4) CurvesAlloc, and (5) cmsnamed.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | lcms2 | 2.2+git20110628-2.3 | — |
| Debian 13 | lcms2 | 2.2+git20110628-2.3 | — |
| Debian 12 | lcms2 | 2.2+git20110628-2.3 | — |
References
- [oss-security] 20130718 CVE Request: OpenJDK and lcms2 2.5 release fixes various denial of service issues in lcms2 mailing-list
- [distro-pkg-dev] 20130708 [SECURITY] IcedTea 2.4.1 for OpenJDK 7 Released! mailing-list
- USN-1911-1 vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/91c2db7f2559be504211b283bc3a2c631d6f06d9
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826097#c9
- [oss-security] 20130722 Re: CVE Request: OpenJDK and lcms2 2.5 release fixes various denial of service issues in lcms2 mailing-list