Debian Security Advisory
DLA-688-1 cairo -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 28 Oct 2016
- Affected Packages:
- cairo
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-9082.
- More information:
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It was discovered that there was a possible DoS attack in Cairo, a multi-platform library providing vector-based rendering. An SVG could generate invalid pointers from a _cairo_image_surface in write_png.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, this issue has been fixed in cairo version 1.12.2-3+deb7u1.We recommend that you upgrade your cairo packages.
