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lcms2: denial of service

Package(s):lcms2 CVE #(s):CVE-2013-4160
Created:July 30, 2013 Updated:August 12, 2013
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

It was discovered that Little CMS did not properly verify certain memory allocations. If a user or automated system using Little CMS were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause Little CMS to crash.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1911-1 2013-07-29
Ubuntu USN-1911-2 2013-07-31
Mageia MGASA-2013-0240 2013-08-09
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:211 2013-08-12
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