Ubuntu Security Update USN-8140-1: Cairo vulnerabilities

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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)

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