What is CVE-2016-9082?

CVE-2016-9082 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cairographics Cairo, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-03.

How severe is CVE-2016-9082?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Cairographics Cairo

CVE-2016-9082

Integer overflow in the write_png function in cairo 1.14.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via a large svg file.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2017-02-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (79.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cairographics Cairo — versions 1.14.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/93931 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/27/2 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi (Issue Tracking)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-01 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9082?: CVE-2016-9082 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cairographics Cairo, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-03.
How severe is CVE-2016-9082?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.