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FreeBSD: VID-B278783F-5C1D-11ED-A21F-001FC69CD6DC (CVE-2022-44638): pixman -- heap overflow

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FreeBSD: VID-B278783F-5C1D-11ED-A21F-001FC69CD6DC (CVE-2022-44638): pixman -- heap overflow

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/02/2022
Created
11/08/2022
Added
11/05/2022
Modified
11/05/2022

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)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-pixman

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