MGASA-2023-0280 - Updated libvpx packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Oct 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0280.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 8, 9
CVE: CVE-2023-5217

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx allowed a remote attacker
to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5217
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/5
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5217

SRPMS:
- 8/core/libvpx-1.9.0-1.1.mga8
- 9/core/libvpx-1.12.0-1.1.mga9

Mageia 2023-0280: libvpx security update

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page

Summary

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32342

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5217

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/5

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5217

Resolution

MGASA-2023-0280 - Updated libvpx packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 8/core/libvpx-1.9.0-1.1.mga8

- 9/core/libvpx-1.12.0-1.1.mga9

Severity
Publication date: 02 Oct 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0280.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-5217

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