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lcms2 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- lcms2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.9-3
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-16435
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16435
lcms2
Fixed versions: 2.9-3
lcms2
Fixed versions: 2.9-3
lcms2
Fixed versions: 2.9-3
Complete source record
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