USN-1206-1: librsvg vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04

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.

Update instructions

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

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

• 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

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

References

• CVE-2011-3146