Bug#915801: cairo: CVE-2018-19876

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Thu Mar 14 22:15:01 GMT 2019


On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 09:59:39PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> 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.

Fixed in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/commit/90e85c2493fdfa3551f202ff10282463f1e36645

Cheers,
        Moritz



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