CVE-2009-0793: Littlecms Lcms

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cmsxform.c in LittleCMS (aka lcms or liblcms) 1.18, as used in OpenJDK and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted image that triggers execution of incorrect code for "transformations of monochrome profiles."

Affected products

  • Littlecms Lcms: version 1.18 only
  • Sun Openjdk: version 6 only

Published 2009-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.