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USN-1206-1: librsvg vulnerability

13 September 2011

SVG image rendering library has had flaws fixed.

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Releases

Packages

  • 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.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

References