Amazon Linux 2 : cairo, --advisory ALAS2-2025-2989 (ALAS-2025-2989)

low Nessus Plugin ID 261338

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of cairo installed on the remote host is prior to 1.15.12-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2989 advisory.

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)

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

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

Solution

Run 'yum update cairo' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2989' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 261338

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-2989.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/4/2025

Updated: 9/4/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-50422

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cairo-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cairo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cairo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cairo-tools, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cairo-gobject-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:cairo-gobject

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-50422

Detections

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