Integer overflow in Little CMS - CVE-2018-16435

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Integer overflow in Little CMS - CVE-2018-16435

Published: September 5, 2018 / Updated: September 5, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14624
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16435
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition or execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c when handling malicious input. A remote unauthenticated attacker can supply a specially crafted file in the second argument to cmsIT8LoadFromFile, trigger heap-based buffer overflow in the SetData function and cause the service to crash or execute arbitrary code with elevated prvileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Little CMS
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Fedora
Opensuse
openjdk8 (Alpine package)
lcms2
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2018-16435

Install update from vendor's website.

openjdk8 (Alpine package) - update to 8.191.12-r0
lcms2 - addressed in versions 2.8-6.el6, 2.8-6.fc27, 2.9-4.fc28, 2.9-4.fc29
chromium - addressed in versions 70.0.3538.77-4.fc27, 70.0.3538.77-4.fc28, 70.0.3538.77-4.fc29, 70.0.3538.110-1.fc28

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