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cairo is vulnerable to denial of service due to a null pointer dereference

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 15, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 28, 2023

Package

bundler cairo (RubyGems)

Affected versions

= 1.15.4

Patched versions

1.15.5

Description

Cairo version 1.15.4 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference related to the FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Render_Glyph resulting in an application crash.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 19, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 15, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Aug 28, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.145%
(51st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-7475

GHSA ID

GHSA-5v3f-73gv-x7x5

Source code

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