| Name | CVE-2025-29070 |
| 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. NOTE: the Supplier disputes this because "this is not exploitable as this function is never called on normal color management, is there only as a helper for low-level programming and investigation." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| lcms2 (PTS) | bullseye | 2.12~rc1-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2.14-2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 2.16-2 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| lcms2 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/issues/475
Fixed by: https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/ec399d6879184e92a88c9099c60573f35e82e28b
Negligible security impact, affected fuction never called on normal color managment