CVE-2019-6462

NameCVE-2019-6462
DescriptionAn 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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Debian Bugs929945

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
cairo (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.14.0-2.1+deb8u3vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.14.8-1+deb9u1vulnerable
buster1.16.0-4+deb10u1vulnerable
bullseye1.16.0-5vulnerable
bookworm1.16.0-7vulnerable
sid, trixie1.18.2-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
cairosourceexperimental1.17.8-1
cairosource(unstable)1.17.8-3low929945

Notes

[bookworm] - cairo <ignored> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - cairo <ignored> (Minor issue)
[buster] - cairo <ignored> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - cairo <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - cairo <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/issues/353
Per upstream seems fixed in latest release, although it was never pinpointed
which change exactly fixes it (and it's also not worth tracking down for older
releases
[wheezy] - cairo <no-dsa> (Minor issue)

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