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Red Hat 8.4: RHSA-2023-5222-01 Important: libwebp Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian announces critical patch for libpng tackling buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Update advised for every user.
An update for libwebp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat important heap overflow libwebp Linux 8.4

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.8.4):
Source: libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.src.rpm
x86_64: libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.i686.rpm libwebp-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.i686.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.i686.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.i686.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.i686.rpm libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.i686.rpm libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-7.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5222-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5222
Issue date: 2023-09-19

Topic

An update for libwebp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4Advanced Mission Critical Update Support.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 update Red Hat important heap overflow libwebp Linux 8.4

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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