CVE-2013-4160

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-21 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

littlecms Little Cms Color Engine: through 2.4; 1.07, 1.08, 1.09, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 (+11)

References

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-July/023895.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/18/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/22/1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1911-1
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826097#c9
https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/91c2db7f2559be504211b283bc3a2c631d6f06d9
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-July/023895.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/18/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/22/1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1911-1
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826097#c9
https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/91c2db7f2559be504211b283bc3a2c631d6f06d9

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