A NULL pointer dereference flaw was reported [1] by Sauli Pahlman in librsvg. If a program linked to librsvg where to open a crafted SVG file, it could cause that application to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code. [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/825497 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658014
Created attachment 521134 [details] patch
This is now public, and fixed in upstream 2.34.1: http://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/?id=34c95743ca692ea0e44778e41a7c0a129363de84
This issue does not affect the version of librsvg2 shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This issue affects the version of librsvg2 shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This issue affects the version of librsvg2 shipped with Fedora 14 and Fedora 15.
Created librsvg2 tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 736237]
Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Ubuntu Security Team for reporting this issue. The Ubuntu Security Team acknowledges Sauli Pahlman as the original reporter.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:1289 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1289.html