ubuntu · CVE-2012-5656

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Priority: medium Published: 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 20:40:08 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-5656 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (inkscape), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, upstream): released 5, ignored 1.

Description:

The rasterization process in Inkscape before 0.48.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files via an external entity in a SVG file, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack.

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