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USN-2961-1 Little CMS vulnerability

USN-2961-1 Little CMS vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Little CMS, Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Description

It was discovered that a double free() could occur when the intent handling code in the Little CMS library detected an error. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file that caused an application using the Little CMS library to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Affected Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.55.0

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.55.0 or later versions

References

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Cloud Foundry Foundation Security Team, AUTHOR

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