CVE-2017-9814: Cairographics Cairo

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cairo-truetype-subset.c in cairo 1.15.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) because of mishandling of an unexpected malloc(0) call.

Affected products

• Cairographics Cairo: up to and including 1.15.6
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2017-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.