Ubuntu USN · USN-8250-1

Little CMS vulnerability

Published: Thu, 07 May 2026 13:27

CVE-2026-42798

Summary

Little CMS could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted ICC profile.

Details

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.

Recommended actions per Ubuntu release

StackPatch playbook auto-generated per release codename and per affected package.

Ubuntu questing

lcms2→2.16-2ubuntu0.2apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 2.16-2ubuntu0.2 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y lcms2
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
liblcms2-2→2.16-2ubuntu0.2apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 2.16-2ubuntu0.2 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y liblcms2-2
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
liblcms2-dev→2.16-2ubuntu0.2apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 2.16-2ubuntu0.2 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y liblcms2-dev
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
liblcms2-utils→2.16-2ubuntu0.2apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 2.16-2ubuntu0.2 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y liblcms2-utils
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.

Ubuntu resolute

lcms2→2.17-1ubuntu0.2apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 2.17-1ubuntu0.2 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y lcms2
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
liblcms2-2→2.17-1ubuntu0.2apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 2.17-1ubuntu0.2 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y liblcms2-2
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
liblcms2-dev→2.17-1ubuntu0.2apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 2.17-1ubuntu0.2 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y liblcms2-dev
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.
liblcms2-utils→2.17-1ubuntu0.2apt_upgrade
Standard apt upgrade. Install 2.17-1ubuntu0.2 from the apt repo.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y liblcms2-utils
```
Most apt upgrades restart their service automatically. needrestart lists anything else.

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