[SA34634] Little cms Monochrome Profiles Denial of Service Vulnerability

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TITLE:
Little cms Monochrome Profiles Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34634

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34634/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Little cms, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error
when handling transformations of monochrome profiles. This can be
exploited to crash an application using the library via a specially
crafted image.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.18. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not process untrusted images.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Red Hat bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492353

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