CVE-2015-7557 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial of service via out-of-bounds heap read in librsvg by providing malformed SVG documents with odd coordinate pairs.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-7557?
CVE-2015-7557 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7557?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gnome Librsvg.
How do I fix CVE-2015-7557?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2015-7557 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7557 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7557, DLA-395-1, GHSA-25xx-qj5q-8gm9.