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Unscored USN-5389-1 4 CVEs

libcroco vulnerabilities

Published Apr 26, 2022 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Summary

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. (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)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS libcroco 0.6.11-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7960
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8834
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8871
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-12825