glsa-202305-21.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202305-21">
    <title>Cairo: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability</title>
    <synopsis>A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Cairo which could result in denial of service.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">cairo</product>
    <announced>2023-05-03</announced>
    <revised count="1">2023-05-03</revised>
    <bug>777123</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="x11-libs/cairo" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">1.17.6</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">1.17.6</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Cairo is a 2D vector graphics library with cross-device output support.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>An attacker with the ability to provide input to Cairo&#39;s image-compositor can cause a buffer overwrite.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>Malicious input to Cairo&#39;s image-compositor can result in denial of service of the application using such Cairo functionality.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Cairo users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-libs/cairo-1.17.6"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35492">CVE-2020-35492</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2023-05-03T10:32:09.444977Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2023-05-03T10:32:09.447930Z">sam</metadata>
</glsa>