NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting cairo package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.82% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CAIRO-10075397
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed19 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 May 2017

CVE-2017-7475  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for cairo.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. Cairo version 1.15.4 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference related to the FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Render_Glyph resulting in an application crash.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1