TITLE:
Inkspace SVG Importer Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17651

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17651/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Inkspace 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/6173/

DESCRIPTION:
Joxean Koret has reported a vulnerability in Inkspace, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the SVG
importer. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by
tricking a user into opening a specially crafted SVG (Scalable Vector
Graphics) file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Do not open SVG files (.svg) from untrusted sources.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joxean Koret

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330894

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