Bug 717778 – x11-libs/cairo: Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-{6461,6462})

• Status: IN_PROGRESS
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2020-04-17 01:20:46 UTC]

CVE-2019-6462 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6462):
  An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the
  function _arc_error_normalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to
  _arc_max_angle_for_tolerance_normalized.

CVE-2019-6461 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6461):
  An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an assertion problem in
  the function _cairo_arc_in_direction in the file cairo-arc.c.

[Comment 1 John Helmert III 2021-11-11 16:03:57 UTC]

(In reply to GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot from comment #0)
> CVE-2019-6462 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6462):
>   An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the
>   function _arc_error_normalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to
>   _arc_max_angle_for_tolerance_normalized.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/353

> CVE-2019-6461 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6461):
>   An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an assertion problem in
>   the function _cairo_arc_in_direction in the file cairo-arc.c.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/352

Still no movement upstream

[Comment 2 Sam James 2022-01-11 03:15:47 UTC]

(In reply to John Helmert III from comment #1)
> (In reply to GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot from comment #0)
> > CVE-2019-6462 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6462):
> >   An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the
> >   function _arc_error_normalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to
> >   _arc_max_angle_for_tolerance_normalized.
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/353
> 

This one is fixed now (not yet in a release, but merged): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/155.

Other isn't.