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CVE-2015-7557

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The _rsvg_node_poly_build_path function in rsvg-shapes.c in librsvg before 2.40.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via an odd number of elements in a coordinate pair in an SVG document.

Affected products

• GNOME Librsvg: through 2.40.6

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/5
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/rsvg-shapes.c?id=40af93e6eb1c94b90c3b9a0b87e0840e126bb8df
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/tree/NEWS
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/5
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/rsvg-shapes.c?id=40af93e6eb1c94b90c3b9a0b87e0840e126bb8df
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/tree/NEWS

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