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Debian: DSA-5520-1 Security Update: Moderate Severity for Libpng

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2023
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The announcement DSA-5518-1 regarding libvpx outlines vulnerabilities related to input validation, enhancing defense mechanisms against denial of service attacks.
It was discovered that missing input sanitising in the encoding support in libvpx, a multimedia library for the VP8 and VP9 video codecs, may result in denial of service
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security advisory denial of service debian moderate severity libvpx

Summary

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.9.0-1+deb11u2.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.12.0-1+deb12u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvpx packages.

For the detailed security status of libvpx please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libvpx

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: libvpx
CVE ID: CVE-2023-44488

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security advisory denial of service debian moderate severity libvpx

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