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Ubuntu: USN-5407-1 (CVE-2017-9814): Cairo vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5407-1 (CVE-2017-9814): Cairo vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/17/2017
Created
05/14/2022
Added
05/11/2022
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-cairo-perf-utils
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcairo2

References

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