# CVE-2017-9814: 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 mis

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-07-14 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

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## References

- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101547
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-01
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00042.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

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