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Mageia 9: MGASA-2024-0221 Moderate: libvpx Integer Overflow Risk

mageia
Calendar Grey June 14, 2024
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised libvpx versions resolve significant integer overflow security flaws affecting Mageia 9 and associated applications.
There exists integer overflows in libvpx in versions prior to 1.14.1

Summary

There exists integer overflows in libvpx in versions prior to 1.14.1. Calling vpx_img_alloc() with a large value of the d_w, d_h, or align parameter may result in integer overflows in the calculations of buffer sizes and offsets and some fields of the returned vpx_image_t struct may be invalid. Calling vpx_img_wrap() with a large value of the d_w, d_h, or stride_align parameter may result in integer overflows in the calculations of buffer sizes and offsets and some fields of the returned vpx_image_t struct may be invalid. (CVE-2024-5197)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33281

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6814-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5197

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/libvpx-1.12.0-1.3.mga9

Publication date: 14 Jun 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0221.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-5197

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