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Ubuntu 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : Little CMS vulnerability (USN-8250-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 314204

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8250-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain malformed ICC profiles. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Little CMS to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected liblcms2-2, liblcms2-dev and / or liblcms2-utils packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8250-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 314204

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8250-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2026

Updated: 5/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42798

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblcms2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblcms2-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblcms2-2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-42798

USN: 8250-1