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medium 6.5

CVE-2019-6462 json

An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0

published 2019-01-16 7 y ago modified 2026-07-23 3 mo ago also EUVD-2019-16022 , JLSEC-2025-16

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • julia Cairo_jll 1.18.0+0
  • cairo Debian 14, Debian 13 1.17.8-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6462

  • cairo Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1
  • cairo Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • cairo Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
  • cairo Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6462

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • cairo SLE Micro 5.2 1.16.0-150200.5.5.1
  • cairo SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, SLE Micro 5.5 +5 more 1.16.0-150400.11.3.1
  • cairo SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.15.2-25.6.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02795-1SUSE-SU-2024:1704-2SUSE-SU-2024:1704-1SUSE-SU-2021:3502-1

  • cairo Alpine 3.15, Alpine 3.14, Alpine 3.12 1.16.0-r5
  • cairo Alpine 3.13 1.16.0-r4
  • cairo Alpine 3.16 1.17.4-r2
  • cairo Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +5 more 1.17.4-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-6462

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-6462 updated cvss 6.5

cairo: infinite loop in the function _arc_error_normalized in the file cairo-arc.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 cairo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 cairo Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 cairo, cairo-tools, cairo-gobject Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 cairo, cairo-gobject, mingw32-cairo, mingw64-cairo
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird, chromium-browser
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Cairo_jll
>=1.16.0+0, <1.18.0+0
1.18.0+0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

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