CVE-2009-0581

N/A

Published: March 23, 2009 at 02:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC

4 products affected across 4 vendorsFirefoxGIMPOpenjdk

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 3%

Description

Memory leak in LittleCMS (aka lcms or liblcms) before 1.18beta2, as used in Firefox 3.1beta, OpenJDK, and GIMP, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted image file.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

GIMP · Gimp

95%

v < 2.9.2

Affected range stops below 2.9.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Little CMS · Littlecms

95%

v ≤ 1.17

Firefox · Mozilla

95%

3.1 beta1

Openjdk · Oracle

95%

v ≤ 7

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (41)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00004.html

x_refsource_MISCExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-003.html

x_refsource_MISCExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/03/littlecms-vulnerabilities.html