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Vulnerability record · CVE-2017-9814 · published 17 July 2017

CVE-2017-9814: Cairographics cairo out-of-bounds read vulnerability

Cairographics · Cairo

cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call.

7.5 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 3.4% · top 11.5% CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds read
7.5CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 5.0
3.4%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
8References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00042.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547 ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-01 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00042.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547 ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-01 Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2017-9814), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-28). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.