Debian Security Advisory
DSA-5484-1 librsvg -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 27 Aug 2023
- Affected Packages:
- librsvg
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1041810.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2023-38633. - More information:
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Zac Sims discovered a directory traversal in the URL decoder of librsvg, a SAX-based renderer library for SVG files, which could result in read of arbitrary files when processing a specially crafted SVG file with an XInclude element.
For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2.50.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1.
For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your librsvg packages.
For the detailed security status of librsvg please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/librsvg