No registered nor evident maintainer, so have to assign this globally.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Suggested advisory:
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The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:

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. (CVE-2019-6462)

References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6462
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2021-October/009644.html
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Updated packages in core/updates_testing:
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lib(64)cairo2-1.16.0-6.1.mga8
lib(64)cairo-devel-1.16.0-6.1.mga8
lib(64)cairo-static-devel-1.16.0-6.1.mga8

from SRPM:
cairo-1.16.0-6.1.mga8.src.rpm

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Status comment: Patch available from upstream => (none)
CVE: (none) => CVE-2019-6462
CC: (none) => nicolas.salguero
Assignee: pkg-bugs => qa-bugs

MGA8-64 Plasma on Lenovo B50
No installation issues.
As stated in bug 28084, 
# urpmq --whatrequires lib64cairo2
returns a long list
picked out caja and run
strace -o libcairo.txt caja
and checked and found references to libcairo lob files.
Works OK.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OK
CC: (none) => herman.viaene

Validating. Advisory in Comment 2.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0497.html

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED