Amazon Linux 2 : freetype (ALAS-2025-2806)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 233690

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of freetype installed on the remote host is prior to 2.8-14. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2806 advisory.

FreeType 2.8.1 has a signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex in cff/cf2intrp.c. (CVE-2025-23022)

An out of bounds write exists in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and variable font files. The vulnerable code assigns a signed short value to an unsigned long and then adds a static value causing it to wrap around and allocate too small of a heap buffer. The code then writes up to 6 signed long integers out of bounds relative to this buffer.
This may result in arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability may have been exploited in the wild.
(CVE-2025-27363)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update freetype' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 233690

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-2806.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 4/1/2025

Updated: 4/1/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-23022

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freetype-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freetype, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freetype-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freetype-demos

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-23022, CVE-2025-27363

IAVA: 2025-A-0161

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