Chris Evans discovered that LittleCMS did not properly handle certain error conditions, resulting in a large memory leak. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing an image with malicious ICC tags, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2009-0581)
Chris Evans discovered that LittleCMS contained multiple integer overflows. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing an image with malicious ICC tags, a remote attacker could crash applications linked against liblcms1, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2009-0723)
23 March 2009
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Chris Evans discovered that LittleCMS did not properly handle certain error conditions, resulting in a large memory leak. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing an image with malicious ICC tags, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2009-0581)
Chris Evans discovered that LittleCMS contained multiple integer overflows. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing an image with malicious ICC tags, a remote attacker could crash applications linked against liblcms1, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2009-0723)
Chris Evans discovered that LittleCMS did not properly perform bounds checking, leading to a buffer overflow. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing an image with malicious ICC tags, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2009-0733)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
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