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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023-5309 Important: libwebp Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 20, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
In its latest bulletin, Red Hat outlines a new security patch for libwebp that targets a severe heap overflow vulnerability, presenting significant risks.
An update for libwebp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux important heap overflow 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 (v. 8):
Source: libwebp-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.src.rpm
aarch64: libwebp-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libwebp-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libwebp-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.s390x.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.s390x.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.s390x.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.s390x.rpm libwebp-java-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.s390x.rpm libwebp-tools-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libwebp-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.i686.rpm libwebp-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.i686.rpm libwebp-debuginfo-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.i686.rpm libwebp-debugsource-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.x86_64.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.i686.rpm libwebp-devel-1.0.0-8.el8_8.1.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5309-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5309
Issue date: 2023-09-20

Topic

An update for libwebp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux important heap overflow libwebp

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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