CVE-2009-0581

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.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Little_cms	Littlecms	*	1.17 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	RedHat	lcms-0:1.18-0.1.beta1.el5_3.2	*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	RedHat	java-1.6.0-openjdk-1:1.6.0.0-0.30.b09.el5	*
Lcms	Ubuntu	dapper	*
Lcms	Ubuntu	devel	*
Lcms	Ubuntu	gutsy	*
Lcms	Ubuntu	hardy	*
Lcms	Ubuntu	intrepid	*
Lcms	Ubuntu	upstream	*

Potential Mitigations

Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0581
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/401.html

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Weakness

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References