Use After Free Affecting cairo-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-CAIRODEVEL-1328453
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Nov 2018

Introduced: 13 Nov 2018

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 cairo-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cairo-devel package and not the cairo-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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.