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Mageia 8 MGASA-2021-0497 Critical: Cairo Infinite Loop Security Fix

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Calendar Grey October 29, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Important notice regarding Mageia security enhancements fixing cairo vulnerabilities. Ensure your system's safety!
An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0

Summary

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-2019-6462)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29582

- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-October/009644.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6462

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update security fix infinite loop cairo Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/cairo-1.16.0-6.1.mga8

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Publication date: 29 Oct 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0497.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-6462

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update security fix infinite loop cairo Mageia

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