USN-693-1: LittleCMS vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 7.10

Packages

• lcms -

Details

It was discovered that certain gamma operations in lcms were not
correctly bounds-checked. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a malicious image, a remote attacker could crash applications
linked against liblcms1, leading to a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.10

• liblcms1 - 1.16-10ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• liblcms1 - 1.16-7ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 7.10

• liblcms1 - 1.16-5ubuntu3.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-5317

Related notices

• USN-652-1: lcms, liblcms1