Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-3146

Title: Gnome Librsvg RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-3146.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 05, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-3146: librsvg before 2.34.1 uses the node name to identify the type of node, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a SVG file with a node with the element name starting with "fe," which is misidentified as a RsvgFilterPrimitive.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/librsvg/2.34/librsvg-2.34.1.news http://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/?id=34c95743ca692ea0e44778e41a7c0a129363de84 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065730.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065739.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066127.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1289.html http://secunia.com/advisories/45877 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/librsvg/+bug/825497 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658014 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734936 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/librsvg/2.34/librsvg-2.34.1.news http://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/?id=34c95743ca692ea0e44778e41a7c0a129363de84 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065730.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065739.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/066127.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1289.html http://secunia.com/advisories/45877 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/librsvg/+bug/825497 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658014 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734936

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-3146 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 05, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.