Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-272
Advisory Release Date: 2014-01-14 15:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-16 22:16 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
An integer overflow, which led to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way pixman handled trapezoids. If a remote attacker could trick an application using pixman into rendering a trapezoid shape with specially crafted coordinates, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-6425)
Affected Packages:
pixman
Issue Correction:
Run yum update pixman to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
pixman-0.26.2-5.10.amzn1.i686
pixman-debuginfo-0.26.2-5.10.amzn1.i686
pixman-devel-0.26.2-5.10.amzn1.i686
src:
pixman-0.26.2-5.10.amzn1.src
x86_64:
pixman-debuginfo-0.26.2-5.10.amzn1.x86_64
pixman-0.26.2-5.10.amzn1.x86_64
pixman-devel-0.26.2-5.10.amzn1.x86_64