# CVE-2013-4160: Little CMS (lcms2) before 2.5, as used in OpenJDK 7 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2014-01-21 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Little CMS (lcms2) before 2.5, as used in OpenJDK 7 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to (1) cmsStageAllocLabV2ToV4curves, (2) cmsPipelineDup, (3) cmsAllocProfileSequenceDescription, (4) CurvesAlloc, and (5) cmsnamed.

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## References

- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/18/7
- http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-July/023895.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1911-1
- https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/91c2db7f2559be504211b283bc3a2c631d6f06d9
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826097#c9
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/22/1

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