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Bug 625636 (CVE-2017-9814)

Summary: <x11-libs/cairo-1.16.0-r2: Out-of-bounds read due to mishandling of unexpected malloc(0) call
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: tetromino, x11
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472788
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa+ cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 672908    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-07-19 13:24:44 UTC
From ${URL} :

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.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2019-04-02 04:15:54 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201904-01 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-01
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).