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CVE-2020-35492

HIGH
7.8
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

A flaw was found in cairo's image-compositor.c in all versions prior to 1.17.4. This flaw allows an attacker who can provide a crafted input file to cairo's image-compositor (for example, by convincing a user to open a file in an application using cairo, or if an application uses cairo on untrusted input) to cause a stack buffer overflow -> out-of-bounds WRITE. The highest impact from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowCWE-787Out-of-bounds Write

How to fix

Remediation Available
cairoDebian
Fixed in:1.16.0-5CVE-2020-35492
Fixed in:1.16.0-5CVE-2020-35492
Fixed in:1.16.0-5CVE-2020-35492
Fixed in:1.16.0-5CVE-2020-35492
cairoUbuntu
Fixed in:1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1USN-5407-1
Fixed in:1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2USN-8140-1
Fixed in:1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1USN-8140-1
Fixed in:1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1USN-8140-1
Fixed in:1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1USN-8140-1
cairo-perf-utilsUbuntu
Fixed in:1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2USN-8140-1
Fixed in:1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1USN-5407-1
Fixed in:1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1USN-8140-1
Fixed in:1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1USN-8140-1
Fixed in:1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1USN-8140-1
libcairo2Ubuntu
Fixed in:1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2USN-8140-1
Fixed in:1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1USN-5407-1
Fixed in:1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1USN-8140-1
Fixed in:1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1USN-8140-1
Fixed in:1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1USN-8140-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.11%probability of exploitation in 30 days
62ndpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 62% of all known CVEs.

References

Other references1

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