Ubuntu alert USN-8140-1 (cairo)

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[USN-8140-1] Cairo vulnerabilities
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Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:07:14 +0000
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8140-1
April 02, 2026

cairo vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Cairo.

Software Description:
- cairo: Cairo 2D vector graphics library performance utilities

Details:

Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali discovered that Cairo did
not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Cairo to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-9814)

It was discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain angle values when
drawing arcs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Cairo to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-6461)

It was discovered that Cairo incorrectly handled certain calculations when
drawing arcs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Cairo to
consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2019-6462)

Stephan Bergmann discovered that Cairo incorrectly managed memory during
image composition. An attacker could use this issue to cause Cairo to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-35492)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  cairo-perf-utils                1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1
  libcairo2                       1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  cairo-perf-utils                1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  libcairo2                       1.16.0-4ubuntu1+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  cairo-perf-utils                1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  libcairo2                       1.15.10-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  cairo-perf-utils                1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  libcairo2                       1.14.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8140-1
  CVE-2017-9814, CVE-2019-6461, CVE-2019-6462, CVE-2020-35492

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/1.16.0-5ubuntu2.1


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