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Fedora 39: 2023-1234abcd56 High: libjpeg Security Flaw Detected

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2023
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Fedora 39's recent libwebp enhancement addresses CVE-2023-5129, greatly improving the safety of image handling.
Backport fix for CVE-2023-5129.

Summary

WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital

photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a

container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser

developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital

images more efficiently.

Update Information:

Backport fix for CVE-2023-5129.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora out-of-bounds libwebp

Change Log

* Thu Sep 28 2023 Sandro Mani - 1.3.2-2 - Backport upstream fix for CVE-2023-5129

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2241121 - CVE-2023-5129 libwebp: out-of-bounds write with a specially crafted WebP lossless file [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241121

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-9108cda47c' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: libwebp
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 1.3.2
Release: 2.fc39
URL: https://www.webmproject.org/
Summary: Library and tools for the WebP graphics format

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora out-of-bounds libwebp

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