CVE-2019-6461

Publication date 16 January 2019

Last updated 3 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cairo	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2020-11-26, no upstream fix

rodrigo-zaiden

as of 2022-05-03, still no upstream fix.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8140-1
Cairo vulnerabilities
2 April 2026