USN-6958-1: Libcroco vulnerabilities

13 August 2024

Several security issues were fixed in Libcroco.

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Releases

Packages

  • libcroco - Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit

Details

It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly accessing data structures
when reading bytes from memory, which could cause a heap buffer overflow.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-7960)

It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly handling invalid UTF-8
values when processing CSS files. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-8834, CVE-2017-8871)

It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly implementing recursion in
one of its parsing functions, which could cause an infinite recursion
loop and a stack overflow due to stack consumption. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-12825)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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