CVE-2013-4160: n/a vulnerability

CVE-2013-4160: Little CMS (lcms2) before 2.5, as used in OpenJDK 7 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to...

Little CMS (lcms2) before 2.5, as used in OpenJDK 7 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to (1) cmsStageAllocLabV2ToV4curves, (2) cmsPipelineDup, (3) cmsAllocProfileSequenceDescription, (4) CurvesAlloc, and (5) cmsnamed.

UnknownCVSS not scoredNot KEV-listedUpdatedAug 6, 2024, 16:30 UTC (UTC+00:00)

Security readout for executives and security teams

This is an older denial-of-service flaw in Little CMS 2 before 2.5, a color-management library used by OpenJDK 7 and possibly other software. A crafted input reaching vulnerable color-profile processing could crash the affected process. The disclosed impact is availability loss, not data theft or code execution, and the provided sources do not show active exploitation. Exposure is most likely where legacy lcms2 before 2.5 is directly installed, statically embedded, or bundled through OpenJDK 7/IcedTea-era runtimes that process untrusted color profiles or image content. Treat as a legacy availability risk. Prioritize systems still running old Java or image-processing stacks, especially internet-facing services that handle user-supplied files. It is not supported as an emergency active-exploitation issue by the supplied evidence. Mitigation focus: Upgrade Little CMS to 2.5 or a vendor-patched later version.; Update OpenJDK 7/IcedTea packages using vendor security advisories.; Inventory products that embed or statically link lcms2..

Prepared: Jun 14, 2026, 14:50 UTC (UTC+00:00)

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Severity: Unknown
CVSS: Not scored
Known Exploited: No
Published: Jan 21, 2014, 18:00 UTC (UTC+00:00)

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https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/91c2db7f2559be504211b283bc3a2c631d6f06d9CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826097#c9CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC

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