CVE-2017-9814 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00358.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Cairographics	Cairo
Opensuse	Leap

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:cairographics:cairo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-18729	cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call.
Ubuntu USN	USN-5407-1	Cairo vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00042.html
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9814
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-01
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9814

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00189}`	epss `{'score': 0.00169}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-07-14T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:18:01.936Z

Reserved: 2017-06-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-9814

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-07-17T13:18:30.937

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-9814

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-06-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9814 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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