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CVE-2013-4160

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2013-08-15 lcms2 -- Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2013-4160
Phase Assigned(20130612)

Description

Little CMS (lcms2) before 2.5, as used in OpenJDK 7 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to (1) cmsStageAllocLabV2ToV4curves, (2) cmsPipelineDup, (3) cmsAllocProfileSequenceDescription, (4) CurvesAlloc, and (5) cmsnamed.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [distro-pkg-dev] 20130708 [SECURITY] IcedTea 2.4.1 for OpenJDK 7 Released!
MLIST [oss-security] 20130718 CVE Request: OpenJDK and lcms2 2.5 release fixes various denial of service issues in lcms2
MLIST [oss-security] 20130722 Re: CVE Request: OpenJDK and lcms2 2.5 release fixes various denial of service issues in lcms2
MISC https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826097#c9
MISC https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/91c2db7f2559be504211b283bc3a2c631d6f06d9
UBUNTU USN-1911-1