PT-2013-01: XML External Entity Injection in GNOME Vulnerable softwareGNOME Version 3.8.1 and earlierApplication link: http://www.gnome.orgSeverity levelSeverity level: Medium Impact: Internal Network Resources Access, File System Access Access Vector: Local CVSS v2: Base Score: 6.6 Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)CVE: N/A Software descriptionGNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system.Vulnerability descriptionPositive Research Center experts have detected a local resources access vulnerability (files and internal network resources) via XML External Entity enabled in GNOME. An attacker is able to give a user a specially crafted file. If he or she views a folder with the file or opens it, librsvg sends local resource's contents to the attacker's server.How to fixUpdate your software up to the latest version.Advisory status14.01.2013 - Vendor gets vulnerability details 16.05.2013 - Vendor releases fixed version and details 20.06.2013 - Public disclosureCreditsThis vulnerability have discovered by Timur Yunusov and Alexey Osipov, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company)Referenceshttp://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2013-01 Reports on the vulnerabilities previously discovered by Positive Research:http://ptsecurity.com/research/advisory/ http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/
