Buffer overflow in Opensuse - CVE-2016-3190
Published: April 21, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40337
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3190
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Affected software:
Opensuse
Opensuse
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The fill_xrgb32_lerp_opaque_spans function in cairo-image-compositor.c in cairo before 1.14.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a negative span length.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-3190
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00029.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318977
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/patch/src/cairo-image-compositor.c?id=5c82d91a5e15d29b1489dcb413b24ee7fdf59934
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2015-March/msg00047.html