Out-of-bounds Read Affecting svgpp package, versions <1.2.3+dfsg1-5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.94% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-SVGPP-262075
  • published13 Jan 2019
  • disclosed13 Jan 2019

Introduced: 13 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6246  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 svgpp to version 1.2.3+dfsg1-5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream svgpp package and not the svgpp package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in SVG++ (aka svgpp) 1.2.3. After calling the gil::get_color function in Generic Image Library in Boost, the return code is used as an address, leading to an Access Violation because of an out-of-bounds read.