USN-2149-1: librsvg vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• librsvg - renderer library for SVG files

Details

It was discovered that librsvg would load XML external entities by default.
If a user were tricked into viewing a specially crafted SVG file, an
attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary files.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10

• librsvg2-2 - 2.36.4-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• librsvg2-2 - 2.36.3-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• librsvg2-2 - 2.36.1-0ubuntu1.1

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

References

• CVE-2013-1881

Related notices

• USN-2149-2: libgtk-3-0, gtk+3.0