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Mageia 8 and 9 Security Advisory: Librsvg Directory Traversal Risk

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Calendar Grey September 11, 2023
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Librsvg enhancement resolves path traversal vulnerability impacting local files. Discover further details in the security briefing.
A directory traversal problem in the URL decoder of librsvg before 2.56.3 could be used by local or remote attackers to disclose files (on the local filesystem outside of the expec...

Summary

A directory traversal problem in the URL decoder of librsvg before 2.56.3 could be used by local or remote attackers to disclose files (on the local filesystem outside of the expected area), as demonstrated by href="/.?../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd" in an xi:include element. (CVE-2023-38633)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32210

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/27/1

- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213502

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- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38633

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38633

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue directory traversal file disclosure librsvg mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/librsvg-2.50.3-1.2.mga8

- 9/core/librsvg-2.56.0-1.1.mga9

Severity
important
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Medium
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Critical

Publication date: 11 Sep 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0259.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-38633

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue directory traversal file disclosure librsvg mageia

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