USN-2548-1: Batik vulnerability

25 March 2015

Batik could be made to consume resources or expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • batik - xml.apache.org SVG Library

Details

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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04

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

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