Executive Summary

Summary
Title Inkscape vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-217-1 First vendor Publication 2005-11-21
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2005-11-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

The following packages are affected:

inkscape

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 0.42-1build1ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the SVG importer of Inkscape. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted SVG image this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Inkscape user.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-217-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200511-22 (Inkscape)
File : nvt/glsa_200511_22.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 916-1 (inkscape)
File : nvt/deb_916_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
21001 Inkspace SVG Importer Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-916.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-217-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-12-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200511-22.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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