USN-8140-1: Cairo vulnerabilities

Publication date

2 April 2026

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Cairo.


Packages

  • cairo - Cairo 2D vector graphics library performance utilities

Details

Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali discovered that Cairo did
not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Cairo to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-9814)

It was discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain angle values when
drawing arcs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Cairo to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-6461)

It was discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain calculations when
drawing arcs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Cairo to
consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2019-6462)

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Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali discovered that Cairo did
not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Cairo to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-9814)

It was discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain angle values when
drawing arcs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Cairo to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-6461)

It was discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain calculations when
drawing arcs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Cairo to
consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2019-6462)

Stephan Bergmann discovered that Cairo incorrectly managed memory during
image composition. An attacker could use this issue to cause Cairo to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-35492)


Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.04 LTS jammy cairo-perf-utils –  1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1
libcairo2 –  1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1
20.04 LTS focal cairo-perf-utils –  1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1  
libcairo2 –  1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1  
18.04 LTS bionic cairo-perf-utils –  1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1  
libcairo2 –  1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1  
16.04 LTS xenial cairo-perf-utils –  1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2  
libcairo2 –  1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2  

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