Issued:

2009-03-19

Updated:

2009-03-19

RHSA-2009:0339 - Moderate: lcms security update

Synopsis

Moderate: lcms security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated lcms packages that resolve several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Description

Little Color Management System (LittleCMS, or simply "lcms") is a small-footprint, speed-optimized open source color management engine.

Multiple integer overflow flaws which could lead to heap-based buffer overflows, as well as multiple insufficient input validation flaws, were found in LittleCMS. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially-crafted image file which could cause an application using LittleCMS to crash, or, possibly, execute arbitrary code when opened by a victim. (CVE-2009-0723, CVE-2009-0733)

A memory leak flaw was found in LittleCMS. An application using LittleCMS could use excessive amount of memory, and possibly crash after using all available memory, if used to open specially-crafted images. (CVE-2009-0581)

Red Hat would like to thank Chris Evans from the Google Security Team for reporting these issues.

All users of LittleCMS should install these updated packages, which upgrade LittleCMS to version 1.18. All running applications using the lcms library must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.s390x.rpm
• lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
• python-lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
• lcms-devel-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.ppc64.rpm
• lcms-devel-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.ppc.rpm
• lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
• lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.ppc.rpm
• lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.ia64.rpm
• python-lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
• python-lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.ia64.rpm
• lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.s390.rpm
• python-lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.s390x.rpm
• lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.ppc64.rpm
• lcms-devel-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.s390.rpm
• lcms-devel-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.i386.rpm
• python-lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.ppc.rpm
• lcms-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.src.rpm
• lcms-devel-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.ia64.rpm
• lcms-devel-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.x86_64.rpm
• lcms-devel-1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 487508
• This content is not included.BZ - 487509
• This content is not included.BZ - 487512

CVEs

• CVE-2009-0723
• CVE-2009-0581
• CVE-2009-0733

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.