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CVE-2018-16435

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Little CMS (aka Little Color Management System) 2.9 has an integer overflow in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the SetData function via a crafted file in the second argument to cmsIT8LoadFromFile.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• littlecms Little Cms Color Engine: 2.9
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3004
• https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/768f70ca405cd3159d990e962d54456773bb8cf8
• https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/issues/171
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00005.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-18
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3770-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3770-2/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4284
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3004
• https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/768f70ca405cd3159d990e962d54456773bb8cf8
• https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/issues/171
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00005.html

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