[Secure-testing-team] Bug#868580: cairo: CVE-2017-9814

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: cairo
Version: 1.14.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for cairo.

CVE-2017-9814[0]:
| cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote
| attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of
| mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9814
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9814
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547

Regards,
Salvatore