Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2945
Advisory Released Date: 2025-07-30
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-07-30
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2022-44638)
Affected Packages:
pixman
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update pixman or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2945 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
pixman-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
pixman-devel-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
pixman-debuginfo-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
i686:
pixman-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.i686
pixman-devel-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.i686
pixman-debuginfo-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.i686
src:
pixman-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.src
x86_64:
pixman-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
pixman-devel-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
pixman-debuginfo-0.34.0-1.amzn2.0.3.x86_64