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USN-223-1: Inkscape vulnerability

5 December 2005

Inkscape vulnerability

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Releases

Details

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered that Inkscape's ps2epsi.sh
script, which converts PostScript files to Encapsulated PostScript
format, creates a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker
could exploit this with a symlink attack to create or overwrite
arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Inkscape.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04
  • inkscape -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References