Bug 891331 (CVE-2012-6076)

Summary:	CVE-2012-6076 inkscape: Reads .eps files from /tmp instead of current working directory
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aca21, duffy, gwync, jspaleta, lkundrak
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	891335, 891336
Bug Blocks:	888299

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-01-02 16:05:38 UTC

An untrusted directory search path vulnerability was found in the way Inkscape, a vector graphics editor, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format, loaded EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files. A local attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary PostScript code with the privileges of the user running the inkscape executable.

References:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654341
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/911146
[3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/29/5
[4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/30/2
[5] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796306

Relevant patch:
[6] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=47;filename=0005-Add-patch-to-fix-upstream-vulnerability-LP-911146.patch;att=5;bug=654341
[7] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/911146/comments/2 (but see also subsequent comments wrt to the patch regression)

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-01-02 16:10:45 UTC

This issue affects the version of the inkscape package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the inkscape package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17. Please schedule an update.

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This issue affects the version of the inkscape package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5. Please schedule an update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-01-02 16:11:46 UTC

Created inkscape tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 891335]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 891336]

Comment 4 Gwyn Ciesla 2013-01-02 16:41:39 UTC

My reading of 911146 is that 0.48.4 is not affected, which would cover all of Fedora.  I'll look at a patch for 0.46 for EL-5.

Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-06-11 21:04:51 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6076