Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6403-3

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-34 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and its derivatives, the worst of which can lead to remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 120.0.6099.109 are affected.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6192-01 - An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6190-01 - An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6403-2 - USN-6403-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in libvpx. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed media files. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5539-01 - 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.

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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-5217: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libvpx, a library used to process VP8 and VP9 video codecs data, processes certain specially formatted video data via a crafted HTML page. This flaw allows an attacker to crash or remotely execute arbitrary code in an application, such as a web browser that is compile...

An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 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 gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-5217: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libvpx, a library used to process VP8 and VP9 video codecs data, processes certain specially formatted video data via a crafted HTML pag...

An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-5217: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libvpx, a library used to process VP8 and VP9 video codecs data, processes certain specially formatted video data via a crafted HTML page. This flaw allows an attacker to crash or remotely execute arbitrary code in an application, such as a web browser that is compiled with this library. * CVE...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5475-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 115.3.1. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, out of bounds write, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-3600: The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: During the worker lifecycle, a use-after-free condition could have occured, which could have led to a potentially exploitable crash. * CVE-2023-5169: A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: A compromised content process could...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5426-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 115.3.1 ESR. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, out of bounds write, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202310-4 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvpx, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 1.13.1 are affected.

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 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 gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-3600: The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: During the worker lifecycle, a use-after-free condition could have occured, which could have led to a potentially exploit...

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-3600: The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: During the worker lifecycle, a use-after-free condition could have occured, which could have led to a potentially exploitable crash. * CVE-2023-5169: A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: A compromised content process could hav...

Ubuntu Security Notice 6403-1 - It was discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed media files. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Microsoft is aware and has released patches associated with the two Open-Source Software security vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-4863 and CVE-2023-5217. Through our investigation, we found that these affect a subset of our products and as of today, we have addressed them in our products as outlined below: CVE-2023-4863 Microsoft Edge Microsoft Teams for Desktop Skype for Desktop Webp Image Extensions (Released on Windows and updates through Microsoft Store) CVE-2023-5217

VP9 in libvpx before 1.13.1 mishandles widths, leading to a crash related to encoding.

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Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Google has updated its Chrome Stable Channel to fix, among other things, an actively exploited vulnerability (Read more...) The post Update Chrome now! Google patches another actively exploited vulnerability appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Google on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a new actively exploited zero-day in the Chrome browser. Tracked as CVE-2023-5217, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow in the VP8 compression format in libvpx, a free software video codec library from Google and the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Exploitation of such buffer overflow flaws can