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:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	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).