Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting cairo package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.58% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CAIRO-10075394
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed29 Jul 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-5116  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for cairo.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The cairo_image_surface_get_data function in Cairo 1.10.2, as used in GTK+ and Wireshark, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a large string.

References

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