ALAS2022-2022-033

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-15999  

A heap buffer overflow leading to out-of-bounds write was found in freetype. Memory allocation based on truncated PNG width and height values allows for an out-of-bounds write to occur in application memory when an attacker supplies a specially crafted TTF file. (CVE-2020-15999)

ALAS2022-2022-033


Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-033
Advisory Release Date: 2022-03-02 17:08 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-03-02 21:06 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2020-15999 

Issue Overview:

A heap buffer overflow leading to out-of-bounds write was found in freetype. Memory allocation based on truncated PNG width and height values allows for an out-of-bounds write to occur in application memory when an attacker supplies a specially crafted TTF file. (CVE-2020-15999)


Affected Packages:

freetype


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update --releasever=2022.0.20220302 freetype to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    freetype-debuginfo-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.aarch64
    freetype-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.aarch64
    freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.aarch64
    freetype-demos-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.aarch64
    freetype-devel-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.aarch64
    freetype-debugsource-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.aarch64

i686:
    freetype-debuginfo-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.i686
    freetype-devel-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.i686
    freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.i686
    freetype-debugsource-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.i686
    freetype-demos-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.i686
    freetype-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.i686

src:
    freetype-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.src

x86_64:
    freetype-debuginfo-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.x86_64
    freetype-demos-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.x86_64
    freetype-devel-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.x86_64
    freetype-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.x86_64
    freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.x86_64
    freetype-debugsource-2.11.0-3.amzn2022.x86_64