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CVE-2008-5316

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2007-11-22
CWE:: CWE-20

Bugzilla:: 473462: CVE-2008-5316 lcms: insufficient input validation in ReadEmbeddedTextTag

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer overflow in the ReadEmbeddedTextTag function in src/cmsio1.c in Little cms color engine (aka lcms) before 1.16 allows attackers to have an unknown impact via vectors related to a length parameter inconsistency involving the contents of "the input file," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2741.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5316 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (lcms)	RHSA-2009:0011	2009-01-07

Last Modified 2018-04-28T05:26:39+00:00

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