Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 6.5

CVE-2019-6461 json

An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0

published 7y ago modified 3mo ago also EUVD-2019-16021 , JLSEC-2025-15

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an assertion problem in the function _cairo_arc_in_direction in the file cairo-arc.c.

Patch / fix

  • julia Cairo_jll 1.18.0+0
  • cairo Debian 14, Debian 13 1.18.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6461

  • cairo Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1
  • cairo Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
  • 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-2019-6461

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 Micro 5.2 1.16.0-150200.5.11.1
  • cairo SLE Micro 5.5, SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 1.16.0-150400.11.6.1
  • cairo SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 1.15.2-25.11.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:03490-1SUSE-SU-2025:03450-1SUSE-SU-2025:02677-1

Is CVE-2019-6461 in your dependencies? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

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-2019-6461 updated cvss 6.5

cairo: assertion problem in _cairo_arc_in_direction in cairo-arc.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cairo, cairo-tools, cairo-gobject Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 cairo, cairo-gobject, mingw32-cairo, mingw64-cairo
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cairo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cairo, firefox, thunderbird, chromium-browser
    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

Exploit prediction

2.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.freedesktop.org https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/issues/352 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Cairo_jll
>=1.16.0+0, <1.18.0+0
1.18.0+0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.