Medium: advancecomp

Issue Overview:

In AdvanceCOMP 2.1, png_compress in pngex.cc in advpng has an integer overflow upon encountering an invalid PNG size, which results in an attempted memcpy to write into a buffer that is too small. (There is also a heap-based buffer over-read.) (CVE-2019-9210)

Affected Packages:

advancecomp

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 advancecomp to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    advancecomp-1.15-22.amzn2.aarch64  
    advancecomp-debuginfo-1.15-22.amzn2.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    advancecomp-1.15-22.amzn2.i686  
    advancecomp-debuginfo-1.15-22.amzn2.i686  
  
src:  
    advancecomp-1.15-22.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    advancecomp-1.15-22.amzn2.x86_64  
    advancecomp-debuginfo-1.15-22.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2019-9210

Mitre: CVE-2019-9210