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CVE-2014-5116 json

The cairo_image_surface_get_data function in Cairo 1.10.2, as used in GTK+ and Wireshark, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a den…

published 2014-07-29 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-5014

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.6%
EPSS 7.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The cairo_image_surface_get_data function in Cairo 1.10.2, as used in GTK+ and Wireshark, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a large string.

Patch / fix

  • wireshark Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.6.3-1~ubuntu14.04.1
  • wireshark Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.6.3-1~ubuntu16.04.1
  • wireshark Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.6.3-1~ubuntu18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5116

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-5116 updated cvss 1.2

cairo: NULL pointer dereference in cairo_image_surface_get_data()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cairo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cairo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cairo, cairo-tools, cairo-gobject Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 mingw-virt-viewer, mingw32-virt-viewer, mingw64-virt-viewer
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-33384)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

7.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-33384 Wireshark 1.10.7 - Denial of Service (PoC) dos, 2014-05-16

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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