CVE-2016-9181

HIGH 7.1CVE-2016-9181 · Published 22/12/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-9181 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability affecting image-info for perl (image-info project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 68.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
image-info for perl image-info_project	`= 1.16= 1.30`	No fix yet

Description

perl-Image-Info: When parsing an SVG file, external entity expansion (XXE) was not disabled. An attacker could craft an SVG file which, when processed by an application using perl-Image-Info, could cause denial of service or, potentially, information disclosure.

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/04/2 · Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/94220 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Third Party Advisory

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