Ubuntu Update for libcairo vulnerability USN-550-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-550-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5501.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for libcairo vulnerability USN-550-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : libcairo vulnerability (USN-550-1)

Peter Valchev discovered that Cairo did not correctly decode PNG image data. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG with Cairo, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the precedi...

Ubuntu 5.10 : libcairo vulnerability (USN-265-1)

When rendering glyphs, the cairo graphics rendering library did not check the maximum length of character strings. A request to display an excessively long string with cairo caused a program crash due to an X library error. Mike Davis discovered that this could be turned into a Denial of Service...