Bug 1379556 (CVE-2016-9181)

Summary: CVE-2016-9181 perl-Image-Info: XXE in SVG files
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: carnil, jfearn, perl-devel, perl-maint-list, ppisar, psabata, rob.myers, sardella, tcallawa
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: perl-Image-Info 1.39 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A vulnerability was found in perl-ImageInfo. When parsing an SVG file, external entity expansion (XXE) was not disabled. An attacker could craft an SVG file which, when processed by an application using perl-Image-Info, could cause denial of service or, potentially, information disclosure.
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Last Closed: 2016-11-17 02:46:52 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1379557, 1379558    
Bug Blocks: 1377998    

Description Doran Moppert 2016-09-27 06:53:28 UTC
The Image::Info package makes no precautions against external entity
expansion in SVG files.  A crafted file could cause information disclosure
or denial of service.

Upstream bug:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=118099

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2016-09-27 06:54:22 UTC
Created perl-Image-Info tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-5 [bug 1379557]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1379558]

Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2016-10-05 01:27:41 UTC
Upstream patch:

http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=Image-Info-1.38&to=Image-Info-1.38_50&w=1

Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2016-11-17 01:26:18 UTC
Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security
impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future
updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity
Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2016-11-17 01:26:26 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Doran Moppert (Red Hat Product Security Team)