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Mageia 8 - 2022-0186 Critical: Cairo DoS Threat Resolved

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Cairo security patch resolves a significant denial of service flaw in Mageia 8. Comprehensive information about the resolution provided.
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

Summary

cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackersto cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call. (CVE-2017-9814)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30412

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5407-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9814

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical bug fix cairo Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/cairo-1.16.0-6.2.mga8

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Publication date: 15 May 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0186.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2017-9814

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical bug fix cairo Mageia

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