From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 07:47:15 CDT

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TITLE:
Inkscape Format String Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24615

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24615/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Inkscape 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5505/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Inkscape, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

1) A format string error exists in certain dialogs. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into opening
a specially crafted URI containing format string specifiers.

2) A format string error exists in the Whiteboard Jabber client,
which potentially can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation requires that the user is logged in to a
Jabber server.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 0.45.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.45.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Kees Cook

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?roup_id=93438&release_id=495106

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