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CVE-2019-6462 (GCVE-0-2019-6462)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-16 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 20:23
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Summary
An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the function _arc_error_normalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to _arc_max_angle_for_tolerance_normalized.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2019-01-16 00:00
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