Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Apache Batik, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution.

Announced

2024-01-07

Revised

2024-01-07

Access

remote

Bugs

#724534 #872689 #918088

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-11

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
dev-java/batik	*	< 1.17	>= 1.17

Background

Apache Batik is a Java-based toolkit for applications or applets that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as display, generation or manipulation.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apache Batik. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Apache Batik users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/batik-1.17"

References

• CVE-2018-8013
• CVE-2019-17566
• CVE-2020-11987
• CVE-2022-38398
• CVE-2022-38648
• CVE-2022-40146
• CVE-2022-41704
• CVE-2022-42890
• CVE-2022-44729
• CVE-2022-44730