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CVE-2017-9814 json

cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...

published 2017-07-14 9 y ago modified 2026-07-23 3 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18729 , JLSEC-2025-12

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • julia Cairo_jll 1.16.0+0
  • cairo Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.16.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9814

  • cairo Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1
  • cairo Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • cairo Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
  • cairo Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9814

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • cairo SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 1.16.0-4.8.1
  • cairo SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 1.15.10-4.5.1
  • cairo SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 1.8.8-2.3.7.1
  • cairo SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +1 more 1.15.2-25.3.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1937-1SUSE-SU-2018:1873-1SUSE-SU-2018:1453-1SUSE-SU-2018:1195-1

  • cairo openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.16.0-lp151.5.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:1003-1

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-2017-9814 updated cvss 3.3

cairo: Out-of-bounds read due to mishandling of unexpected malloc(0) call

  • 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
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

Exploit prediction

3.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.freedesktop.org https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Cairo_jll
<1.16.0+0
1.16.0+0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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