CVE-2017-9814

Publication date 17 July 2017

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cairo	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2020-11-26, no complete fix from upstream

rodrigo-zaiden

upstream closed the issue on Jul/2021 with a merge containing two other commits to complete the fix.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
cairo	Other: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=132563 Upstream: 1998239 Upstream: ae04679 Upstream: c91ae5c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H