Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2017-7475

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7475 describes a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in Cairo version 1.15.4, affecting the cairographics cairo library. This flaw, stemming from FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Render_Glyph functions, can lead to an application crash. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires local access and user interaction to exploit, resulting in high availability impact but no confidentiality or integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.15.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cairographics:cairo:1.15.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0182 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: cairoFixed in: 1.15.5
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: cairo
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: cairo
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: cairo
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3Fixed in: mingw-virt-viewer

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-5v3f-73gv-x7x5medium

cairo is vulnerable to denial of service due to a null pointer dereference

Nov 15, 2017
redhatCVE-2017-7475Low

cairo: NULL pointer dereference with a crafted font file

Apr 23, 2017

References

bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / oss-sec/2017/q2/151
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E