Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package lcms  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LCMS-295881
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed4 Sept 2018

Introduced: 4 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16435  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream lcms package and not the lcms package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Little CMS (aka Little Color Management System) 2.9 has an integer overflow in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the SetData function via a crafted file in the second argument to cmsIT8LoadFromFile.