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CVE-2009-0581 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  03/23/2009

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.3 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-003.html Exploit
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/03/littlecms-vulnerabilities.html Exploit
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-19.xml
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.487438
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1745
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1769
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:121
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:137
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:162
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-003.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0339.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502018/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502031/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34185 Patch
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021870
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-744-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0775 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487509
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49328
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10023
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0377.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00794.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00799.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00811.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00851.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00856.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00857.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00921.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10023
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10023

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)

Change History

4 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-0581
NVD Published Date:
03/23/2009
NVD Last Modified:
10/10/2018