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CVE-2005-3737 (GCVE-0-2005-3737)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-11-22 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:24
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the SVG importer (style.cpp) of inkscape 0.41 through 0.42.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SVG file with long CSS style property values.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-217-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
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http://secunia.com/advisories/17882 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://securityreason.com/securityalert/58 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330894 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/17662 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2005-11-19 00:00
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