CVE-2012-1616

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in icclib before 2.13, as used by Argyll CMS before 1.4 and possibly other programs, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted ICC profile file.

Affected products

Argyllcms: through 1.3.7; 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.3.0, 0.6.0 (+15)
Color Icclib: through 2.11; 1.23, 2.00, 2.02, 2.03

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079762.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48921
http://secunia.com/advisories/49602
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-04.xml
http://www.argyllcms.com/icc_readme.html
http://www.osvdb.org/81617
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53240
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809697
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75162
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/079762.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48921
http://secunia.com/advisories/49602

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