| Name | CVE-2019-6462 |
| Description | An 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 929945 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| cairo (PTS) | buster | 1.16.0-4+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 1.16.0-5 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.16.0-7 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 1.18.0-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1.18.0-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| cairo | source | experimental | 1.17.8-1 | | | |
| cairo | source | (unstable) | 1.17.8-3 | low | | 929945 |
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