Description
Memory leak in LittleCMS (aka lcms or liblcms) before 1.18beta2, as used in Firefox 3.1beta, OpenJDK, and GIMP, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted image file.
Published: 2009-03-23
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 1.9% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1745-1 New lcms packages fix arbitrary code execution
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1745-2 New lcms packages fix regression
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1769-1 New openjdk-6 packages fix arbitrary code execution
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-0584 Memory leak in LittleCMS (aka lcms or liblcms) before 1.18beta2, as used in Firefox 3.1beta, OpenJDK, and GIMP, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted image file.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-744-1 LittleCMS vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/03/littlecms-vulnerabilities.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34367 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34382 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34400 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34408 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34418 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34442 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34450 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34454 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34463 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34632 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34675 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34782 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-19.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.487438 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1745 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1769 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:121 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:137 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:162 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0339.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502018/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502031/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34185 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021870 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-744-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0775 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487509 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49328 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0581 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10023 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0377.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0581 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00794.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00799.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00811.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00851.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00856.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00857.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00921.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Oracle
Oracle openjdk
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:sun:openjdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:oracle:openjdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Sun
Sun openjdk
Oracle
Oracle openjdk

Subscriptions

Gimp Gimp
Littlecms Little Cms
Mozilla Firefox
Oracle Openjdk
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:40:04.074Z

Reserved: 2009-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-0581

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-03-23T14:19:12.467

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-0581

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-0581 - Bugzilla

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