USN-693-1: LittleCMS vulnerability

17 December 2008

LittleCMS vulnerability

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It was discovered that certain gamma operations in lcms were not
correctly bounds-checked. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a malicious image, a remote attacker could crash applications
linked against liblcms1, leading to a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 7.10

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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