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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-9210: Security patch for advancecomp (ALAS-2020-1450)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-9210: Security patch for advancecomp (ALAS-2020-1450)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/27/2019
Created
07/21/2020
Added
07/21/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In AdvanceCOMP 2.1, png_compress in pngex.cc in advpng has an integer overflow upon encountering an invalid PNG size, which results in an attempted memcpy to write into a buffer that is too small. (There is also a heap-based buffer over-read.)

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-advancecomp
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-advancecomp-debuginfo

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