1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5407-1

USN-5407-1: Cairo vulnerabilities

Publication date

10 May 2022

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in cairo.

Releases

Packages

  • cairo - Cairo 2D vector graphics library performance utilities

Details

Gustavo Grieco, Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca, Suleman Ali, and others
discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-9082, CVE-2017-9814, CVE-2019-6462)

Stephan Bergmann discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service,
or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-35492)

Gustavo Grieco, Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca, Suleman Ali, and others
discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-9082, CVE-2017-9814, CVE-2019-6462)

Stephan Bergmann discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service,
or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-35492)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial cairo-perf-utils –  1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  
libcairo2 –  1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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