What is CVE-2016-3190?

CVE-2016-3190 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cairographics Cairo, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-04-21.

How severe is CVE-2016-3190?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Cairographics Cairo

CVE-2016-3190

The fill_xrgb32_lerp_opaque_spans function in cairo-image-compositor.c in cairo before 1.14.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a negative span length.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2016-04-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cairographics Cairo
openSUSE — versions 13.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/patch/src/cairo-image-compositor.c (Exploit)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00029.html (vendor-advisory)
mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2015-March/msg00047.html (mailing-list, Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3190?: CVE-2016-3190 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cairographics Cairo, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-04-21.
How severe is CVE-2016-3190?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.