USN-6266-1: librsvg vulnerability

1 August 2023

librsvg could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • librsvg - renderer library for SVG files

Details

Zac Sims discovered that librsvg incorrectly handled decoding URLs. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files by
using an include element.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

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

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