GLSA-202305-21 : Cairo: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

high Nessus Plugin ID 175058

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202305-21 (Cairo: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability)

- A flaw was found in cairo's image-compositor.c in all versions prior to 1.17.4. This flaw allows an attacker who can provide a crafted input file to cairo's image-compositor (for example, by convincing a user to open a file in an application using cairo, or if an application uses cairo on untrusted input) to cause a stack buffer overflow -> out-of-bounds WRITE. The highest impact from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-35492)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All Cairo users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=x11-libs/cairo-1.17.6

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-21

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777123

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 175058

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202305-21.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 5/3/2023

Updated: 5/3/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35492

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:cairo, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35492