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Red Hat: RHSA-2023-5190-01 Important: Heap Overflow in libwebp

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has announced a critical libjpeg upgrade to address buffer overflow security issues in several RHEL 8.2 versions.
An update for libwebp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterpr...

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive, and distribute digital images more efficiently.
Security Fix(es):
* libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec (CVE-2023-4863)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat heap overflow important update image format libwebp

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4863 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2):
Source: libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.src.rpm
x86_64: libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.2):
Source: libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.src.rpm
ppc64le: libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-7.el8_2.1.i686.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5190-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5190
Issue date: 2023-09-18

Topic

An update for libwebp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 TelecommunicationsUpdate Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAPSolutions.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat heap overflow important update image format libwebp

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.2) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v. 8.2) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2238431 - CVE-2023-4863 libwebp: Heap buffer overflow in WebP Codec

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