Division by zero in librsvg - CVE-2017-11464

 

Division by zero in librsvg - CVE-2017-11464

Published: February 1, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU24817
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11464
CWE-ID: CWE-369
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a division by zero error within the box_blur_line() function in rsvg-filter.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted SVG file to the application and crash it.


Affected software

librsvg
Ubuntu
Fedora
librsvg2-2 (Ubuntu package)
librsvg2
mingw-librsvg2

How to mitigate CVE-2017-11464

Install update from vendor's website.

librsvg - update to 2.40.18
librsvg2-2 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.40.13-3ubuntu0.1, 2.40.13-3ubuntu0.2, 2.40.20-2ubuntu0.1, 2.40.20-2ubuntu0.2
librsvg2 - addressed in versions 2.40.18-1.fc24, 2.40.18-1.fc25, 2.40.18-1.fc26
mingw-librsvg2 - addressed in versions 2.40.18-1.fc24, 2.40.18-1.fc25, 2.40.18-1.fc26

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