CVE-2018-18064
cairo: Stack-based buffer overflow via parsing of crafted WebKitGTK+ document
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · October 8, 2018
Updated · January 21, 2026
Description
cairo through 1.15.14 has an out-of-bounds stack-memory write during processing of a crafted document by WebKitGTK+ because of the interaction between cairo-rectangular-scan-converter.c (the generate and render_rows functions) and cairo-image-compositor.c (the _cairo_image_spans_and_zero function).
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
Attackers can use specially-crafted files to trigger this stack-buffer overflow in cairo. Applications compiled with cairo, which do not parse untrusted 2D image files are not vulnerable to this flaw. cairo package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8 is compiled with gcc's Stack Smashing Protection, which may reduce the impact of this flaw to crash only.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 6.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow