Medium severity · published Sep 4, 2018
CVE-2018-16435
Little CMS (aka Little Color Management System) 2.9 has an integer overflow in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the SetData…
5.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Little CMS (aka Little Color Management System) 2.9 has an integer overflow in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the SetData function via a crafted file in the second argument to cmsIT8LoadFromFile.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 78% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
6.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
6.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
6.0 · source: NVD
LC
Little Cms Color Engine · Littlecms
2.9 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
12.04; 14.04; 16.04; 18.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16435
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16435
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3004
Patch
https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/768f70ca405cd3159d990e962d54456773bb8cf8
Exploit
https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/issues/171
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00005.html
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-18
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3770-1/
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