Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting pixman-devel package, versions <0:0.38.4-3.el8_6


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PIXMANDEVEL-6078739
  • published22 Nov 2023
  • disclosed3 Nov 2022

Introduced: 3 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-44638  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 pixman-devel to version 0:0.38.4-3.el8_6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:7403.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pixman-devel package and not the pixman-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1