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Bug 625636 (CVE-2017-9814) - <x11-libs/cairo-1.16.0-r2: Out-of-bounds read due to mishandling of unexpected malloc(0) call
Summary: <x11-libs/cairo-1.16.0-r2: Out-of-bounds read due to mishandling of unexpecte...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2017-9814
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa+ cve]
Keywords:
Depends on: CVE-2018-19876
Blocks:
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Reported: 2017-07-19 13:24 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2019-04-02 04:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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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).