CVE-2018-16435: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Little CMS (aka Little Color Management System) 2.9 has an integer overflow in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the SetData function via a crafted file in the second argument to cmsIT8LoadFromFile.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
  • Littlecms Little CMS Color Engine: version 2.9 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2018-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.