PT-2017-19200 · Cairo+3 · Cairo+3

Published 2017-07-14 · Updated 2026-04-02 · CVE-2017-9814

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cairo versions 1.15.6 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to an out-of-bounds read. This is because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call in the cairo-truetype-subset.c file.

Recommendations For versions 1.15.6 and earlier, update to a version later than 1.15.6 to resolve the issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1377

ALT-PU-2023-1002

ALT-PU-2023-1010

CVE-2017-9814

MGASA-2022-0186

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1895-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1003-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_1003-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10671-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1195-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1453-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1873-1

SUSE-SU-2018_1195-1

SUSE-SU-2018_1873-1

SUSE-SU-2020:1937-1

SUSE-SU-2020_1937-1

USN-5407-1

USN-8140-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Cairo

References · 39

• 🔥 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9814 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9814 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:1195-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00042.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-35492 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9814 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-6461 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8140-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9814 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9814 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2022-0186 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2020:1937-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9814 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5407-1 · Vendor Advisory