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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5538-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5538-01 - The libvpx packages provide the VP8 SDK, which allows the encoding and decoding of the VP8 video codec, commonly used with the WebM multimedia container file format. Issues addressed include a buffer overflow vulnerability.

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: libvpx security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5538-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5538
Issue date: 2023-10-09
CVE Names: CVE-2023-5217 CVE-2023-44488
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  1. Summary:

An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
Extended Update Support.

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

  1. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

  1. Description:

The libvpx packages provide the VP8 SDK, which allows the encoding and
decoding of the VP8 video codec, commonly used with the WebM multimedia
container file format.

Security Fix(es):

  • libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217)

  • libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-44488)

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:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

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

After installing the update, all applications using libvpx must be
restarted for the changes to take effect.

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

2241191 - CVE-2023-5217 libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx
2241806 - CVE-2023-44488 libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx

  1. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6):

Source:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_6.src.rpm

aarch64:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_6.s390x.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.s390x.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.s390x.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_6.i686.rpm
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.i686.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.i686.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.i686.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6):

aarch64:
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.s390x.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.s390x.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_6.s390x.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.i686.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.i686.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_6.i686.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.i686.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_6.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-2023-5217
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-44488
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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