Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-693-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that certain gamma operations in lcms were not correctly bounds-checked. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a malicious image, a remote attacker could crash applications linked against liblcms1, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Affected
LittleCMS vulnerability on Ubuntu 7.10 ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 8.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-5317 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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