Bug#915801: cairo: CVE-2018-19876

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: cairo
Version: 1.16.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/merge_requests/5

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for cairo.

CVE-2018-19876[0]:
| cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in cairo-ft-font.c, would
| free memory using a free function incompatible with WebKit's
| fastMalloc, leading to an application crash with a "free(): invalid
| pointer" error.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19876
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19876
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/merge_requests/5
[2] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191595

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore