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CVE-2008-5316

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5316 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the Little CMS color engine (lcms) versions prior to 1.16, specifically within the ReadEmbeddedTextTag function. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability due to a length parameter inconsistency in input files. Despite its maximum CVSS score of 10.0, indicating severe risk, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:littlecms:lcms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.07CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:littlecms:lcms:1.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.08CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:littlecms:lcms:1.08:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.09CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:littlecms:lcms:1.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:littlecms:lcms:1.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0278 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: lcms-0:1.15-1.2.2.el5_2.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-5316Moderate

lcms: insufficient input validation in ReadEmbeddedTextTag

Nov 22, 2007

References

lcms.cvs.sourceforge.net / viewvc/lcms/lcms/src/cmsio1.c
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/33066
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/47119
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10531
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1684
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/11/28/3
Exploit
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0011.html
securityfocus.com / bid/32708