XML External Entity (XXE) Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libimage-info-perl (opens in a new tab)
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- published22 Dec 2016
- disclosed22 Dec 2016
Introduced: 22 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9181 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libimage-info-perl package and not the libimage-info-perl package as distributed by Ubuntu.
perl-Image-Info: When parsing an SVG file, external entity expansion (XXE) was not disabled. An attacker could craft an SVG file which, when processed by an application using perl-Image-Info, could cause denial of service or, potentially, information disclosure.