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Ubuntu 13.10 USN-2149-1 Critical: Librsvg Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey March 17, 2014
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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2149-1 addresses a vulnerability in librsvg that could compromise sensitive data in various releases.
Librsvg could be made to expose sensitive information.

Summary

Librsvg could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description:

- 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical information exposure ubuntu librsvg

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 LTS:
  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

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2149-1

CVE-2013-1881

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March 17, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical information exposure ubuntu librsvg

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/librsvg/2.36.4-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/librsvg/2.36.3-0ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/librsvg/2.36.1-0ubuntu1.1

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