National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5316
Original release date:12/03/2008
Last revised:08/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in the ReadEmbeddedTextTag function in src/cmsio1.c in Little cms color engine (aka lcms) before 1.16 allows attackers to have an unknown impact via vectors related to a length parameter inconsistency involving the contents of "the input file," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2741.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://lcms.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lcms/lcms/src/cmsio1.c?r1=1.33&r2=1.34
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: lcms-readembeddedtexttag-bo(47119)
External Source: BID
Name: 32708
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081128 CVE request: lcms (old issues)
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1684
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33066