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Debian Security Advisory DSA 916-1 (inkscape)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to inkscape announced via advisory DSA 916-1. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Inkscape, a vector-based drawing program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2005-3737 Joxean Koret discovered a buffer overflow in the SVG parsing routines that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2005-3885 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the ps2epsi extension shell script uses a hardcoded temporary file making it vulnerable to symlink attacks. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain inkscape packages.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.41-4.99.sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.42.2+0.43pre1-1. We recommend that you upgrade your inkscape package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20916-1