CVE-2009-0733

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-03-19
Bugzilla:
487512: CVE-2009-0733 LittleCms lack of upper-bounds check on sizes

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the ReadSetOfCurves function in LittleCMS (aka lcms or liblcms) before 1.18beta2, as used in Firefox 3.1beta, OpenJDK, and GIMP, allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file associated with a large integer value for the (1) input or (2) output channel, related to the ReadLUT_A2B and ReadLUT_B2A functions.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0733 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
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 these issues.

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