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CVE-2019-6462

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat, Inc. Cairo: 1.16.0

References

• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/gerbv
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/issues/353
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
• https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/gerbv
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/issues/353
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

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