CVE-2017-7475
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.28%cairo is vulnerable to denial of service due to a null pointer dereference
Published: 11/15/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Cairo version 1.15.4 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference related to the FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Render_Glyph resulting in an application crash.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/cairofrom 0
- RubyGems/cairo>= 1.15.4, < 1.15.5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7475
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7475
- PATCHhttps://github.com/rcairo/rcairo
- WEBhttps://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100763
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7475
- WEBhttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/151
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/cairo/CVE-2017-7475.yml
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E