CVE-2008-5316: Littlecms Lcms

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the ReadEmbeddedTextTag function in src/cmsio1.c in Little cms color engine (aka lcms) before 1.16 allows attackers to have an unknown impact via vectors related to a length parameter inconsistency involving the contents of "the input file," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2741.

Affected products

• Littlecms Lcms: up to and including 1.15; version 1.07 only; version 1.08 only; version 1.09 only; version 1.10 only; version 1.11 only; …
• Littlecms Little CMS Color Engine: up to and including 1.15; version 1.07 only; version 1.08 only; version 1.09 only; version 1.10 only; version 1.11 only; …

Published 2008-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.