Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-3770-1

USN-3770-1: Little CMS vulnerabilities

Publication date

20 September 2018

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Little CMS.

Releases

18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS 14.04 LTS

Packages

lcms2 - Little CMS color management library

Details

Ibrahim El-Sayed discovered that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-10165)

Quang Nguyen discovered that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-16435)

Ibrahim El-Sayed discovered that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-10165)

Quang Nguyen discovered that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-16435)

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using Little CMS to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.04 bionic	liblcms2-2 – 2.9-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 bionic	liblcms2-utils – 2.9-1ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial	liblcms2-2 – 2.6-3ubuntu2.1
16.04 xenial	liblcms2-utils – 2.6-3ubuntu2.1
14.04 trusty	liblcms2-2 – 2.5-0ubuntu4.2
14.04 trusty	liblcms2-utils – 2.5-0ubuntu4.2

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References

USN-3770-2

USN-3770-2