Out-of-bounds Read Affecting cairo package, versions [,1.16.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.44% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CAIRO-2371305
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-9814  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade cairo to version 1.16.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1