Use After Free Affecting cairo package, versions <1.16.0-4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.71% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-CAIRO-517386
  • published5 Dec 2018
  • disclosed5 Dec 2018

Introduced: 5 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19876  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 cairo to version 1.16.0-4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cairo package and not the cairo package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free function incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading to an application crash with a "free(): invalid pointer" error.