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Vulnerability record · CVE-2019-6462 · published 16 January 2019

CVE-2019-6462: Cairographics cairo vulnerability

Cairographics · Cairo

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.

6.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 2.1% · top 18.8% CWE-835 · CWE-835
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 4.3
2.1%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
6References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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.

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

Affected products

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

References

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https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/gerbv Not ApplicableThird Party Advisory
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/issues/353 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/gerbv Not ApplicableThird Party Advisory
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/issues/353 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2019-6462), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.