CVE-2018-11556: littlecms little_cms Out-of-bounds Write

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-11556 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in littlecms little_cms. EPSS estimates a 1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 30-05-2018
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

tificc in Little CMS 2.9 has an out-of-bounds write in the cmsPipelineCheckAndRetreiveStages function in cmslut.c in liblcms2.a via a crafted TIFF file. NOTE: Little CMS developers do consider this a vulnerability because the issue is based on an sample program using LIBTIFF and do not apply to the lcms2 library, lcms2 does not depends on LIBTIFF other than to build sample programs, and the issue cannot be reproduced on the lcms2 library.”

• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteThe product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.