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CVE-2019-6462

Publication date 16 January 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cairo 24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
23.10 mantic Ignored
23.04 lunar Ignored
22.10 kinetic Ignored
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
21.10 impish Ignored
21.04 hirsute Ignored
20.10 groovy Ignored
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
19.10 eoan Ignored
19.04 disco Ignored
18.10 cosmic Ignored
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2020-11-26, no upstream fix

rodrigo-zaiden

upstream merged a commit on Aug/2021 and closed the issue on Dec/2021.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
cairo

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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