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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-6462

medium Nessus Plugin ID 222952

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

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

 - An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the function _arc_error_normalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to _arc_max_angle_for_tolerance_normalized. (CVE-2019-6462)

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

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-6462

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6462

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 222952

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2019_6462.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 4/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo-gobject, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw32-cairo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw64-cairo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cairo-gobject, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cairo, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cairo-tools, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cairo-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mingw64-cairo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:cairo-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mingw32-cairo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo-devel, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cairo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:cairo-gobject-devel, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6462