> USN-8140-1: Cairo vulnerabilities
[DATE: 02/04/2026 07:27]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali discovered that Cairo did
not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Cairo to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-9814)
It was discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain angle values when
drawing arcs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Cairo to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-6461)
It was discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain calculations when
drawing arcs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Cairo to
consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2019-6462)
Stephan Bergmann discovered that Cairo incorrectly managed memory during
image composition. An attacker could use this issue to cause Cairo to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-35492)