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Unscored USN-6958-1 4 CVEs

libcroco vulnerabilities

Published Aug 13, 2024 · Updated Jun 29, 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.
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)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS libcroco 0.6.13-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS libcroco 0.6.8-2ubuntu1+esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS libcroco 0.6.12-2ubuntu0.1~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