CVE-2009-0581

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-03-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-401

Description

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.

Affected products

GIMP: before 2.9.2 — fixed in 2.9.2
littlecms little cms color engine: through 1.17
Mozilla Firefox: 3.1-beta1
containers/openjdk: through 7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GIMP 2.9.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-003.html
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/03/littlecms-vulnerabilities.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34367
http://secunia.com/advisories/34382
http://secunia.com/advisories/34400
http://secunia.com/advisories/34408
http://secunia.com/advisories/34418
http://secunia.com/advisories/34442
http://secunia.com/advisories/34450
http://secunia.com/advisories/34454
http://secunia.com/advisories/34463

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