InternationalColorConsortium iccDEV up to 2.3.1.5 ICC Color Profile CTiffImg::WriteLine heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in InternationalColorConsortium iccDEV. Affected is the function CTiffImg::WriteLine of the component ICC Color Profile Handler. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-34539. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in InternationalColorConsortium iccDEV. This affects the function CTiffImg::WriteLine of the component ICC Color Profile Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools for working with ICC color management profiles. Prior to version 2.3.1.6, a crafted ICC profile and TIFF input can trigger a heap-buffer-overflow (HBO) in CTiffImg::WriteLine(). The issue is observable under AddressSanitizer as an out-of-bounds heap read when running iccSpecSepToTiff on a malicious .icc + .tif pair, leading to a crash during TIFF strip writing. This issue has been patched in version 2.3.1.6.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-34539 since 03/30/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 2.3.1.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• InternationalColorConsortium

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• iccDEV

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• 2.3.1.1
• 2.3.1.2
• 2.3.1.3
• 2.3.1.4
• 2.3.1.5

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• Product: https://github.com/InternationalColorConsortium/iccDEV/

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