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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-21236: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-21236: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/06/2021
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

CairoSVG is a Python (pypi) package. CairoSVG is an SVG converter based on Cairo. In CairoSVG before version 2.5.1, there is a regular expression denial of service (REDoS) vulnerability. When processing SVG files, the python package CairoSVG uses two regular expressions which are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (REDoS). If an attacker provides a malicious SVG, it can make cairosvg get stuck processing the file for a very long time. This is fixed in version 2.5.1. See Referenced GitHub advisory for more information.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-py3-cairosvg

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