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Debian: Security Advisory for lilypond (DSA-4756-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

3 years ago

Modified

Modified

3 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'lilypond' package(s) announced via the DSA-4756-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

Faidon Liambotis discovered that Lilypond, a program for typesetting sheet music, did not restrict the inclusion of Postscript and SVG commands when operating in safe mode, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code when rendering a typesheet file with embedded Postscript code.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'lilypond' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 2.19.81+really-2.18.2-13+deb10u1. We recommend that you upgrade your lilypond packages.

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