NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting cairo package, versions <1.15.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
1.82% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-CAIRO-534570
  • published17 Nov 2019
  • disclosed23 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Apr 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade cairo to version 1.15.5 or higher.

Overview

cairo is a Ruby bindings for cairo.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. HarBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine, it contains a tool named hb-view which utilizes Cairo to give a graphical view of text using a font provided by user. This vulnerability is due to logical problem in program, and can cause a Denial of Service attack with a crafted font file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1