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dia: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):dia CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2966
Created:October 4, 2005 Updated:April 6, 2006
Description: Joxean Koret discovered that the SVG import plugin did not properly sanitize data read from an SVG file. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted SVG file, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1025-1 2006-04-06
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:187 2005-10-20
Gentoo 200510-06 2005-10-06
Debian DSA-847-1 2005-10-08
SuSE SUSE-SR:2005:022 2005-10-07
Ubuntu USN-193-1 2005-10-04
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