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Alma Linux: CVE-2022-44638: Moderate: pixman security update (ALSA-2023-7754)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2022-44638: Moderate: pixman security update (ALSA-2023-7754)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/03/2022
Created
12/20/2023
Added
12/19/2023
Modified
05/03/2024

Description

In libpixman in Pixman before 0.42.2, there is an out-of-bounds write (aka heap-based buffer overflow) in rasterize_edges_8 due to an integer overflow in pixman_sample_floor_y.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-pixman
  • alma-upgrade-pixman-devel

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