CVE-2012-5656

Description

The rasterization process in Inkscape before 0.48.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files via an external entity in a SVG file, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack.

References

https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+milestone/0.48.4

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1712-1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00043.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00041.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095398.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-January/095380.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/095024.html

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/11931

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3