NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting cairo package, versions <1.15.5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.12% (47th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-CAIRO-534570
- published 17 Nov 2019
- disclosed 23 Apr 2017
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 23 Apr 2017
CVE-2017-7475 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade cairo
to version 1.15.5 or higher.
Overview
cairo is a Ruby bindings for cairo.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. HarBuzz
is an OpenType text shaping engine, it contains a tool named hb-view
which utilizes Cairo to give a graphical view of text using a font provided by user. This vulnerability is due to logical problem in program, and can cause a Denial of Service attack with a crafted font file.