Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2989
Advisory Released Date: 2025-09-04
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-09-04
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler v25.04.0. The heap memory containing PDF stream objects is not cleared upon program exit, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive PDF content via a memory dump. (CVE-2025-50422)
Affected Packages:
cairo
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 cairo or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2989 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
cairo-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
cairo-devel-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
cairo-gobject-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
cairo-gobject-devel-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
cairo-tools-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
cairo-debuginfo-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
i686:
cairo-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.i686
cairo-devel-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.i686
cairo-gobject-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.i686
cairo-gobject-devel-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.i686
cairo-tools-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.i686
cairo-debuginfo-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.i686
src:
cairo-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.src
x86_64:
cairo-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
cairo-devel-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
cairo-gobject-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
cairo-gobject-devel-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
cairo-tools-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
cairo-debuginfo-1.15.12-4.amzn2.0.1.x86_64