=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-217-1 November 21, 2005 inkscape vulnerability https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16689 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) The following packages are affected: inkscape The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 0.42-1build1ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: A buffer overflow has been discovered in the SVG importer of Inkscape. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted SVG image this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Inkscape user.