CVE-2018-19876

Summary

CVECVE-2018-19876
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-05 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-01-31 19:27:00 UTC
Descriptioncairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free function incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading to an application crash with a "free(): invalid pointer" error.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cairographics Cairo 1.16.0 All All All
Application Cairographics Cairo 1.16.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ft: Use FT_Done_MM_Var instead of free when available in cairo_ft_apply_variations (!5) · Merge Requests · cairo / cairo · GitLab MISC gitlab.freedesktop.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
191595 – [FreeType] Problem under WebCore::FontPlatformData::FontPlatformData MISC bugs.webkit.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500087 Alpine Linux Security Update for cairo
  • 503760 Alpine Linux Security Update for cairo
  • 900196 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for cairo 1.16.0
  • 903695 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for cairo (1980)
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