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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3774-1 lcms2 -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Jan 2017

Affected Packages:

lcms2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 852627.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-10165.

More information:

Ibrahim M. El-Sayed discovered an out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in the function Type_MLU_Read in lcms2, the Little CMS 2 color management library, which can be triggered by an image with a specially crafted ICC profile and leading to a heap memory leak or denial-of-service for applications using the lcms2 library.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6-3+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.8-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your lcms2 packages.