CVE-2020-35492

Publication date 18 March 2021

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cairo	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

The issue was introduced in version 1.12.12 with the commit: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/commit/c986a731

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
cairo	Upstream: 03a820b Upstream: 8bc14a6 Upstream: 0677e0a

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5407-1
Cairo vulnerabilities
10 May 2022