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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-19876: Use After Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-19876: Use After Free

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/05/2018
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/10/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-cairo

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