SUSE SLED10 Security Update : inkscape (SUSE-SU-2013:0350-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 83576

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

inkscape has been updated to fix a XXE (Xml eXternal Entity) attack during rasterization of SVG images. (CVE-2012-5656), where the rendering of malicious SVG images could have connected from inkscape to internal hosts.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected inkscape package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2297a2d

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5656.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/794958

http://www.nessus.org/u?692cfc72

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 83576

File Name: suse_SU-2013-0350-1.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:inkscape, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:10

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5656

BID: 56965