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Medium ALAS2-2025-2910 1 CVE

Moderate: libgepub security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 2, 2025 · Updated Jul 10, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-6196: A flaw was found in libgepub, a library used to read EPUB files. The software mishandles file size calculations when opening specially crafted EPUB files, leading to incorrect memory allocations. This issue causes the application to crash. Known affected usage includes desktop services like Tumbler, which may process malicious files automatically when browsing directories. While no direct remote attack vectors are confirmed, any application using libgepub to parse user-supplied EPUB content could be vulnerable to a denial of service.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libgepub 0:0.6.0-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 libgepub-debuginfo 0:0.6.0-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 libgepub-devel 0:0.6.0-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.5

    Libgepub: integer overflow in libgepub's epub archive handling

    A flaw was found in libgepub, a library used to read EPUB files. The software mishandles file size calculations when opening specially crafted EPUB files, leading to incorrect memory allocations. This issue causes the application to crash. Known affected usag…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-6196.html