Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting lcms package, versions [,2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.81% (85th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LCMS-2380496
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Jan 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jan 2014

CVE-2013-4160  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade lcms to version 2.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Little CMS (lcms2) before 2.5, as used in OpenJDK 7 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to (1) cmsStageAllocLabV2ToV4curves, (2) cmsPipelineDup, (3) cmsAllocProfileSequenceDescription, (4) CurvesAlloc, and (5) cmsnamed.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1