MGASA-2015-0138

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    MGASA-2015-0138

    Published: 9 Apr 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-0250

    Summary: Updated batik packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated batik packages fix security vulnerability: Nicolas Gregoire and Kevin Schaller discovered that Batik would load XML external entities by default. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted SVG file, an attacker could possibly obtain access to arbitrary files or cause resource consumption (CVE-2015-0250).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0138.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15566, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/17/4, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2548-1/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: batik

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/batik?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.8-0.1.svn1230816.10.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High