CVE-2017-9814
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.16.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.16.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.16.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.16.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.16.0-1 |
| sles | affected | | |
| suse | 15.1 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| cairographics | cairo | {"endIncluding":"1.15.6"} | |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00042.html
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-01
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9814
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9814.html
CWEs
CWE-125
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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