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Fedora 41 Advisory: Details on the Double Free Patch for libvpx

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 41 introduces a fix for a memory management flaw in the libvpx video codec library, improving both software resilience and safeguarding against potential vulnerabilities.
Add patch for double free

Summary

libvpx provides the VP8/VP9 SDK, which allows you to integrate your applications

with the VP8 and VP9 video codecs, high quality, royalty free, open source codecs

deployed on millions of computers and devices worldwide.

Update Information:

Add patch for double free

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Change Log

* Tue Jun 3 2025 Wim Taymans - 1.15.0-3 - Add patch for double free Resolves: rhbz#2368931 * Fri Jan 17 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.15.0-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Jan 14 2025 Pete Walter - 1.15.0-1 - Update to 1.15.0

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2368931 - CVE-2025-5262 libvpx: Double-free in libvpx encoder [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368931

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-15220f1411' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: libvpx
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 1.15.0
Release: 3.fc41
URL: http://www.webmproject.org/code/
Summary: VP8/VP9 Video Codec SDK

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