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RHEL 5 : lcms (RHSA-2009:0339)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35970

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for lcms.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2009:0339 advisory.

 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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL lcms package based on the guidance in RHSA-2009:0339.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1bbe4408

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487508

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487509

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487512

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0339

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35970

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-0339.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/20/2009

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-0733

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-0581

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lcms, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-lcms, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:lcms-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0581, CVE-2009-0723, CVE-2009-0733

CWE: 190, 401

RHSA: 2009:0339