SB2016052002 - Denial of service in librsvg
Published: May 20, 2016 Updated: January 31, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016052002
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-4348)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to stack consumption in the _rsvg_css_normalize_font_size() function in librsvg when processing circular definitions in an SVG document. A remote attacker can use a specially crafted SVG file and consume all available resources on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00079.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3584
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/28/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/28/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/30/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/15
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/?id=d1c9191949747f6dcfd207831d15dd4ba00e31f2