FKIE_CVE-2015-7557

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-05-20 14:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:32
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
The _rsvg_node_poly_build_path function in rsvg-shapes.c in librsvg before 2.40.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via an odd number of elements in a coordinate pair in an SVG document.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/5
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/rsvg-shapes.c?id=40af93e6eb1c94b90c3b9a0b87e0840e126bb8dfVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/tree/NEWSVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/rsvg-shapes.c?id=40af93e6eb1c94b90c3b9a0b87e0840e126bb8dfVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/tree/NEWSVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gnome librsvg *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:32:44.763",
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