Medium
Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-6462
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 31 Oct 2026, 10:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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