CVE-2009-0581

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2009-03-19
CWE:
CWE-401
Bugzilla:
487509: CVE-2009-0581 LittleCms memory leak

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Memory leak in LittleCMS (aka lcms or liblcms) before 1.18beta2, as used in Firefox 3.1beta, OpenJDK, and GIMP, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted image file.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0581 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (lcms) RHSA-2009:0339 2009-03-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (java-1.6.0-openjdk) RHSA-2009:0377 2009-04-07

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Chris Evans from the Google Security Team for reporting this issue.

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