MGASA-2021-0497

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    MGASA-2021-0497

    Published: 29 Oct 2021Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-6462

    Summary: Updated cairo packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: 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)

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0497.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29582, https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-October/009644.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cairo

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/cairo?arch=source&distro=mageia-8

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.16.0-6.1.mga8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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