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RHSA-2023:5535: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvpx security update

An update for libvpx 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 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-2023:5535 - 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 8.1 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 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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 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 for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM

libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.src.rpm

SHA-256: 055de2989d602f08eeb3635c06705aaaba94cc7391b7d015b3cfbc6884fddc52

ppc64le

libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: a1b327799b814d3bc3cc2d1c5b61108764367be6df79f964eb33d7b3239b6eb2

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 553461827b3ea78115fc8c108b66fdb383b9a42a251e1449829439b6f757725c

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: d21a57a69c5eb9219ee8a262a86383662b29f9ce37abc1aa1efd3f82771a99f9

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: d442400455f73c7832e425dda48fc8092e86ec96cf7cd34be9826a717c2b2239

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1

SRPM

libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.src.rpm

SHA-256: 055de2989d602f08eeb3635c06705aaaba94cc7391b7d015b3cfbc6884fddc52

x86_64

libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 13b557180c1a3a38030d6b6b86809ed685da9b10febc7b06cb07685e02324423

libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 759381b22dcefc76de16806de59c39a92900d7df07527c55218eabe0dc83f57d

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 8966994e360af532a9fc6624c9ed870f56188f8127ee4f5407dbac4928cac99b

libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 46c2e90d074d09a83092b24387019f3a7158474e15abd41f9fa530e8b835cd34

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_1.i686.rpm

SHA-256: b35730d4b9b609021dc95a76d121c9a7d4dd2accf4cd0f784c18aab4599df121

libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 7864fef9871ce2bf025897f35071f21396fc63d22b4a5f5a47014d0ac263c512

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.i686.rpm

SHA-256: 1feef92d92a9413396982c88bb8d1dc02977ed73ffb9c7a64f320ff387ecf7a9

libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: bbde307fd48b7d83d6da436d77b17ad8d77ba65cb15773e5330303780efe3d4a

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