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High 1 exploited CVE ALAS2023-2023-074 4 CVEs

Important: freetype security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 22, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-27406: A segmentation fault was found in FreeType's FT_Request_Size() function in the ftobjs.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to access a memory location in a way that could cause an application to halt or crash, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2022-27405: A segmentation fault was found in the FreeType library. This flaw allows an attacker to attempt access to a memory location in a way that could cause an application to halt or crash, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2022-27404: A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in Freetype's sfnt_init_face() function in the sfobjs.c file. The vulnerability occurs when creating a face with a strange file and invalid index. This flaw allows an attacker to read and modify a small amount of memory, causing the application to crash. CVE-2020-15999: A heap buffer overflow leading to out-of-bounds write was found in freetype. Memory allocation based on truncated PNG width and height values allows for an out-of-bounds write to occur in application memory when an attacker supplies a specially crafted TTF file.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype 0:2.12.1-3.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-debuginfo 0:2.12.1-3.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-debugsource 0:2.12.1-3.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-demos 0:2.12.1-3.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-demos-debuginfo 0:2.12.1-3.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-devel 0:2.12.1-3.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-15999.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-27404.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-27405.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-27406.html