Medium
Security advisory
In xml.rs in GNOME librsvg before 2.46.2, a crafted SVG file with nested patterns can cause denial of service when passed to the library for processing. The attacker constructs pattern elements so that the number of final rendered objects grows exponentially.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-20446
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In xml.rs in GNOME librsvg before 2.46.2, a crafted SVG file with nested patterns can cause denial of service when passed to the library for processing. The attacker constructs pattern elements so that the number of final rendered objects grows exponentially.
osv:CVE-2019-20446
Complete source record
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