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Mageia: 2020-0359 Moderate: cairo NULL Pointer Dereference Crash

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Calendar Grey September 2, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
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Cairo version 1.15.4 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference related to the FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Render_Glyph resulting in an application crash

Summary

Cairo version 1.15.4 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference related to the FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Render_Glyph resulting in an application crash. (CVE-2017-7475)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26981

- - http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-May/004095.html

- - - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7475

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update NULL pointer application crash cairo Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/cairo-1.16.0-2.1.mga7

Publication date: 02 Sep 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0359.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2017-7475

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Topics Covered

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