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Gentoo GLSA 202105-18 High: LittleCMS Remote Attack Risk

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2021
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Gentoo GLSA 202109-15 addresses a stack overflow vulnerability in OpenSSL, potentially enabling remote code execution by attackers.
A heap-based buffer overflow in LittleCMS might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Summary

It was discovered that LittleCMS (aka Little Color Management System) had an integer overflow in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity gentoo buffer overflow remote execution image processing littlecms

Resolution

All LittleCMS users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/lcms-2.10"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-16435 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16435

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-18
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: LittleCMS: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: May 26, 2021
Bugs: #761418
ID: 202105-18

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity gentoo buffer overflow remote execution image processing littlecms

Synopsis

A heap-based buffer overflow in LittleCMS might allow remote attackersto execute arbitrary code.

Background

LittleCMS, or short lcms, is a color management system for working with ICC profiles. It is used by many applications including GIMP, Firefox and Chromium.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/lcms < 2.10 >= 2.10

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to open a specially crafted file containing malicious color data, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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