From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 15:23:28 CDT

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TITLE:
Dia SVG File Import Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17047

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17047/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Dia 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5793/

DESCRIPTION:
Joxean Koret has reported a vulnerability in Dia, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the insecure use of the "eval()"
function in "plug-ins/python/diasvg_import.py". This can be exploited
to execute arbitrary python code when a malicious SVG file is
imported.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.94. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not import SVG files from untrusted source.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joxean Koret

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330890

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