cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free function incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading to an application crash with a "free(): invalid pointer" error.

unity_linux UTSA-2026-093027: Unity Linux: cairo (UTSA-2026-093027)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free function     incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading to an application crash with a free(): invalid pointer     error. (CVE-2018-19876)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free function
    incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading to an application crash with a "free(): invalid pointer"
    error. (CVE-2018-19876)

An update of the cairo package has been released.

According to the version of the cairo packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in     cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free     function incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading     to an application crash with a 'free(): invalid     pointer' error.(CVE-2018-19876)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the cairo package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in     cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free     function incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading     to an application crash with a 'free(): invalid     pointer' error.(CVE-2018-19876)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update lowers amount of color artefacts around glyphs when subpixel rendering is enabled for text by using freetype's default LCD filter.

It also fixes a crash caused by using of wrong function for freeing of memory (CVE-2018-19876).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
260314	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-19876	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
423784	Alpine: multiple cairo packages: security update to 1.16.0-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
423784	Alpine: multiple cairo packages: security update to 1.16.0-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
203096	Photon OS 3.0: Cairo PHSA-2019-3.0-0008	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
203095	Photon OS 2.0: Cairo PHSA-2019-2.0-0145	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
400573	Alpine: multiple cairo packages: security update to 1.16.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
400573	Alpine: multiple cairo packages: security update to 1.16.0-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	medium
147093	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.6.0 : cairo (EulerOS-SA-2021-1547)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	medium
146254	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : cairo (EulerOS-SA-2021-1262)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	medium
146236	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : cairo (EulerOS-SA-2021-1243)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	medium
125156	Photon OS 1.0: Cairo PHSA-2019-1.0-0220	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
120358	Fedora 29 : cairo (2018-3a195026f5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-19876

medium

Tenable Plugins

Coming Soon

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium

medium