CVE-2016-9181

high

Published 2016-12-22 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.1

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

70%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.39-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.39-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.39-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.39-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.39-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
image-info_project	image-info_for_perl	`1.16`
image-info_project	image-info_for_perl	`1.30`

References

CWEs

CWE-611

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.