CVE-2016-9082

Summary

CVECVE-2016-9082
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-02-03 15:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-04-02 07:29:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the write_png function in cairo 1.14.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a large svg file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cairographics Cairo 1.14.6 All All All
Application Cairographics Cairo 1.14.6 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cairo 'cairo-png.c' Integer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Cairo: Denial of Service (GLSA 201904-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi CONFIRM bugs.freedesktop.org Issue Tracking
98165 – (CVE-2016-9082) DoS attack based on using SVG to generate invalid pointers from a _cairo_image_surface in write_png CONFIRM bugs.freedesktop.org Issue Tracking
Bug 1312337 – CVE-2016-9082 cairo: Out of bounds read in read_png/write_png in cairo-png.c CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
oss-security - Re: librsvg and cairo are causing libpng to write out-of-bounds MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710183 Gentoo Linux Cairo Denial of service Vulnerability (GLSA 201904-01)
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