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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5236-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5236-01 - The libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive, and distribute digital images more efficiently. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: libwebp: critical security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5236-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5236
Issue date: 2023-09-19
CVE Names: CVE-2023-4863
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  1. Summary:

An update for libwebp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
Update
Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
give
a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the
CVE
link(s) in the References section.

  1. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

  1. Description:

The libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics
format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital
photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and
a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF).
Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress,
archive, and distribute digital images more efficiently.

Security Fix(es):

  • libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec (CVE-2023-4863)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

  1. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

  1. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2238431 - CVE-2023-4863 libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec

  1. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1):

Source:
libwebp-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.src.rpm

aarch64:
libwebp-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
libwebp-devel-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm
libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
libwebp-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
libwebp-devel-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm
libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
libwebp-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
libwebp-devel-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm
libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
libwebp-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
libwebp-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
libwebp-devel-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
libwebp-devel-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm
libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.i686.rpm
libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-5.2.el8_1.1.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

  1. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4863
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

  1. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is [email protected]. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
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