CVE-2025-29070
Published: April 3, 2025Last modified: June 6, 2025
Description
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified in thesmooth2() in cmsgamma.c in lcms2-2.16 which allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 7.5 |
| Attack Vector | NETWORK |
| Attack complexity | LOW |
| Privileges required | NONE |
| User interaction | NONE |
| Scope | UNCHANGED |
| Confidentiality | NONE |
| Integrity impact | NONE |
| Availability impact | HIGH |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Notes
Disputed. Negligible security impact, affected function never called on normal color management. Fixed by: https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/ec399d6879184e92a88c9099c60573f35e82e28b I'm bumping down to Severity: Low.
Status
| Product | Release | Package | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpaquita Linux | Stream | lcms2 | Unknown (2.16-r0) |