USN-1911-1: Little CMS vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• lcms2 - Little CMS 2 color management library

Details

It was discovered that Little CMS did not properly verify certain memory
allocations. If a user or automated system using Little CMS were tricked
into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause Little CMS
to crash.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04

• liblcms2-2 - 2.4-0ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• liblcms2-2 - 2.2+git20110628-2ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• liblcms2-2 - 2.2+git20110628-2ubuntu3.1

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that
uses Little CMS to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-4160

Related notices

• USN-1911-2: ghostscript, libgs9