USN-3770-2: Little CMS vulnerabilities

Publication date

20 September 2018

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Little CMS.

Releases


Packages

  • lcms - Little CMS color management library utilities
  • lcms2 - Little CMS color management library

Details

USN-3770-1 fixed a vulnerability in Little CMS. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Pedro Ribeiro discoreved that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2013-4276)

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)

USN-3770-1 fixed a vulnerability in Little CMS. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Pedro Ribeiro discoreved that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2013-4276)

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:


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