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Pardus: Lcms: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
LittleCMS, an open source color management engine, suffers from several integer overflows resulting in stack based buffer overflows, various heap errors and memory leaks.
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2009-43 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2009-04-01
Severity: 2
Type: Remote
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Summary
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LittleCMS, an open source color management engine, suffers from several
integer overflows resulting in stack based buffer overflows, various
heap errors and memory leaks.
Description
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Decoding a specially crafted image file will result in unexpected
process termination, Denial Of Service conditions orarbitrary code
execution due to stack overflow.
Affected packages:
Pardus 2008:
lcms, all before 1.17-5-3
Resolution
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There are update(s) for lcms. You can update them via Package Manager or
with a single command from console:
pisi up lcms
References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=9452
* http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0581
* http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0723
* http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0733