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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-6462

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:47 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-6462

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Jan 2019, 18:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2019-6462
Complete source record
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