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CVE-2017-7475
Cairo version 1.15.4 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference related to the FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Render_Glyph resulting in an…
Medium5.5EPSS 1.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Cairo version 1.15.4 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference related to the FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Render_Glyph resulting in an application crash.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 44 days later
· 44 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- NULL pointer dereference
- CWE-476 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-476 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected 1.15.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemscairoGHSA-5v3f-73gv-x7x5 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100763 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170428 CVE-2017-7475 Cairo-1.15.4 Denial-of-Service Attack due to Logical Problem in Program (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7475 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [mina-dev] 20210225 [jira] [Created] (FTPSERVER-500) Security vulnerability in common/lib/log4j-1.2.17.jar (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0342 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5v3f-73gv-x7x5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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