SB2024071245 - SUSE update for cairo
Published: July 12, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024071245
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6462)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in the function _arc_error_normalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to _arc_max_angle_for_tolerance_normalized. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
2) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6358)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated user to cause DoS conditions on the target system.The weakness is due to input validation flaw. By connecting to the FTP service and sending a specially crafted parameters, a remote attacker can trigger the target FTP service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service on the vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.