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Gentoo: GLSA 202003-11 Normal: SVG Salamander Server-Side Request Forgery

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Calendar Grey March 14, 2020
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The SVG Salamander system exhibits a critical SSRF vulnerability allowing remote adversaries to craft unauthorized requests on Gentoo Linux. Prompt intervention is essential.
A SSRF may allow remote attackers to forge illegitimate requests.

Summary

A Server-Side Request Forgery was discovered in SVG Salamander.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo normal severity server-side request forgery svg salamander

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for SVG Salamander. We recommend that users unmerge SVG Salamander: # emerge --unmerge "dev-java/svgsalamander"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-5617 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5617

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-11
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: SVG Salamander: Server-Side Request Forgery
Date: March 14, 2020
Bugs: #607720
ID: 202003-11

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo normal severity server-side request forgery svg salamander

Synopsis

A SSRF may allow remote attackers to forge illegitimate requests.

Background

SVG Salamander is a light weight SVG renderer and animator for Java.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-java/svgsalamander <= 0.0-r2 Vulnerable! ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate to another package if one is available or wait for the existing packages to be marked stable by their architecture maintainers.

Impact

===== An attacker, by sending a specially crafted SVG file, can conduct SSRF.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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