Scribus before 1.6.7 contains an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in the importsvm plugin…

What to know

What it is

Scribus before 1.6.7 contains an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in the importsvm plugin that fails to verify bitmap and transparency mask dimensions match. Attackers can supply a crafted SVM file with mismatched mask dimensions to trigger heap reads and writes, causing crashes or code execution as the user.

Affected

See advisory

Fix

Upgrade the product to 1.6.7 or later.

Exploitation

No known exploitation