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RHSA-2023:5536: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvpx security update

An update for libvpx 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. 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-2023-44488: A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libvpx, a library used to process VP9 video codecs data. This issue occurs when processing certain specially formatted video data via a crafted HTML page, allowing an attacker to crash or remotely execute arbitrary code in an application, such as a web browser that is compiled with this library.
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Issued:

2023-10-09

Updated:

2023-10-09

RHSA-2023:5536 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: libvpx security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for libvpx 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.

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.

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.

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.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4

SRPM

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.src.rpm

SHA-256: 745885097d3b7ee69181cd7be177efa6605bc0365f90af741aac9ee3e3e8c00b

x86_64

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: b78587c301e457c700db6fa64d270bcb47d64d478305404abe0231a0d061899a

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 18a6f6261f7f71fddd35fadb57fd0a2f928460f64145c36aeaf9e63466e1451a

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 266c73119b38b937ca9dd3cc9d2cffe73c87de5954b934875a0db431abb1df47

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 7186fed688fe70d807f468723423c76ff8ef5591de4b4fd90e605904c6ed2f8c

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: dddffc8dce00028c728ac35539771d53180544c180c67d8be33f4f2c2162fb99

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 15824096e1519e8fef425d97a95e084aa890bff656579cc175af438348b23bee

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: adf1cca5cce0a606d1fd5a112578df200be548e6151caf8fb2ef5baf970f1d28

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 9ea3c46f8768fc7e2edf200bf3eeeccba077115287a3fb7b63f32d02fbc447df

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4

SRPM

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.src.rpm

SHA-256: 745885097d3b7ee69181cd7be177efa6605bc0365f90af741aac9ee3e3e8c00b

x86_64

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: b78587c301e457c700db6fa64d270bcb47d64d478305404abe0231a0d061899a

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 18a6f6261f7f71fddd35fadb57fd0a2f928460f64145c36aeaf9e63466e1451a

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 266c73119b38b937ca9dd3cc9d2cffe73c87de5954b934875a0db431abb1df47

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 7186fed688fe70d807f468723423c76ff8ef5591de4b4fd90e605904c6ed2f8c

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: dddffc8dce00028c728ac35539771d53180544c180c67d8be33f4f2c2162fb99

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 15824096e1519e8fef425d97a95e084aa890bff656579cc175af438348b23bee

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: adf1cca5cce0a606d1fd5a112578df200be548e6151caf8fb2ef5baf970f1d28

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 9ea3c46f8768fc7e2edf200bf3eeeccba077115287a3fb7b63f32d02fbc447df

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4

SRPM

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.src.rpm

SHA-256: 745885097d3b7ee69181cd7be177efa6605bc0365f90af741aac9ee3e3e8c00b

ppc64le

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 687edf6c3e3fe805a14af42f291bef0ce877c5e298731a0afdbcba651b39c3a8

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 7fe8644fb43e554ed151f05782301882103e57b031f56f1a96fd81345b26a52a

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 381265188eeab2baa97e782499fce15c74d345ac43d4ea114df9c42fee34d93e

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 1b21b57fdc2eea56736a7ff798e14b632353c9ef36fa43a01ce73b05e552cc19

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4

SRPM

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.src.rpm

SHA-256: 745885097d3b7ee69181cd7be177efa6605bc0365f90af741aac9ee3e3e8c00b

x86_64

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: b78587c301e457c700db6fa64d270bcb47d64d478305404abe0231a0d061899a

libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 18a6f6261f7f71fddd35fadb57fd0a2f928460f64145c36aeaf9e63466e1451a

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 266c73119b38b937ca9dd3cc9d2cffe73c87de5954b934875a0db431abb1df47

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 7186fed688fe70d807f468723423c76ff8ef5591de4b4fd90e605904c6ed2f8c

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: dddffc8dce00028c728ac35539771d53180544c180c67d8be33f4f2c2162fb99

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 15824096e1519e8fef425d97a95e084aa890bff656579cc175af438348b23bee

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.i686.rpm

SHA-256: adf1cca5cce0a606d1fd5a112578df200be548e6151caf8fb2ef5baf970f1d28

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 9ea3c46f8768fc7e2edf200bf3eeeccba077115287a3fb7b63f32d02fbc447df

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

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