CVE-2005-3737

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-11-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the SVG importer (style.cpp) of inkscape 0.41 through 0.42.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SVG file with long CSS style property values.

Affected products

Inkscape: 0.41, 0.42, 0.42.1, 0.42.2

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330894
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/inkscape/inkscape/src/style.cpp?r1=1.110&r2=1.110.2.1
http://secunia.com/advisories/17651
http://secunia.com/advisories/17662
http://secunia.com/advisories/17778
http://secunia.com/advisories/17882
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/58
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-916
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-22.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15507
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-217-1

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