GLSA 202003-11: SVG Salamander: Server-Side Request Forgery

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Severity:	normal
Title:	SVG Salamander: Server-Side Request Forgery
Date:	03/14/2020
Bugs:	#607720
ID:	202003-11

Synopsis

A SSRF may allow remote attackers to forge illegitimate requests.

Background

SVG Salamander is a light weight SVG renderer and animator for Java.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-java/svgsalamander	<= 0.0-r2		All supported architectures

Description

A Server-Side Request Forgery was discovered in SVG Salamander.

Impact

An attacker, by sending a specially crafted SVG file, can conduct SSRF.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for SVG Salamander. We recommend that users unmerge SVG Salamander:

      # emerge --unmerge "dev-java/svgsalamander"

References

CVE-2017-5617

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202003-11.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.