#VU25011 Resource exhaustion in librsvg - CVE-2019-20446

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#VU25011 Resource exhaustion in librsvg - CVE-2019-20446

Published: February 6, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25011
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20446
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
librsvg
Software vendor:
Gnome Development Team

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of nested patterns within SVG files in xml.rs in GNOME librsvg. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted SVG file, pass if to the affected application, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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