1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2961-1

USN-2961-1: Little CMS vulnerability

Publication date

4 May 2016

Overview

Applications using the Little CMS library could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

  • lcms2 - Little CMS color management library

Details

It was discovered that a double free() could occur when the intent handling
code in the Little CMS library detected an error. An attacker could use
this to specially craft a file that caused an application using the Little
CMS library to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

It was discovered that a double free() could occur when the intent handling
code in the Little CMS library detected an error. An attacker could use
this to specially craft a file that caused an application using the Little
CMS library to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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
14.04 trusty liblcms2-2 –  2.5-0ubuntu4.1
liblcms2-utils –  2.5-0ubuntu4.1

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