CVE-2016-10165

high
Published 2017-02-03 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.1

Description

The Type_MLU_Read function in cmstypes.c in Little CMS (aka lcms2) allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service via an image with a crafted ICC profile, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap read.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
70%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.8-4
debian debianbullseyefixed2.8-4
debian debianforkyfixed2.8-4
debian debiansidfixed2.8-4
debian debiantrixiefixed2.8-4
debian debian8.0affected
redhat rhel5.0affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
suse suse42.1affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu18.04affected

Application impact

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.