RHSA-2024:0131 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for pixman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for the X Window System and Cairo.

Security Fix(es):

• pixman: Integer overflow in pixman_sample_floor_y leading to heap out-of-bounds write (CVE-2022-44638)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2139988 - CVE-2022-44638 pixman: Integer overflow in pixman_sample_floor_y leading to heap out-of-bounds write

CVEs

• CVE-2022-44638

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate