Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1206-1
13th September, 2011
librsvg vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary
SVG image rendering library has had flaws fixed.
Software description
- librsvg - Rendering library for SVG files
Details
Sauli Pahlman discovered that librsvg did not correctly handle malformed
filter names. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a
specially crafted SVG image, a remote attacker could gain user privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 11.04:
- librsvg2-bin 2.32.1-0ubuntu3.1
- librsvg2-2 2.32.1-0ubuntu3.1
- librsvg2-common 2.32.1-0ubuntu3.1
- librsvg2-dev 2.32.1-0ubuntu3.1
- Ubuntu 10.10:
- librsvg2-bin 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
- librsvg2-2 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
- librsvg2-common 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
- librsvg2-dev 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
- librsvg2-bin 2.26.3-0ubuntu1.1
- librsvg2-2 2.26.3-0ubuntu1.1
- librsvg2-common 2.26.3-0ubuntu1.1
- librsvg2-dev 2.26.3-0ubuntu1.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.