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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 RHSA-2023-5534-01 Important: libvpx Issues

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2023
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An essential patch from Red Hat for libvpx tackles critical heap overflow vulnerabilities and encoding failure problems. Ensure you implement these updates immediately!
An update for libvpx 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 Enterpri...

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

After installing the update, all applications using libvpx must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Summary

The libvpx packages provide the VP8 SDK, which allows the encoding and decoding of the VP8 video codec, commonly used with the WebM multimedia container file format.
Security Fix(es):
* libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217)
* libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-44488)
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 Red Hat update important heap overflow libvpx encoding crash

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5217 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-44488 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2):
Source: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.src.rpm
x86_64: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.2):
Source: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.src.rpm
ppc64le: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v. 8.2):
Source: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.src.rpm
x86_64: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_2.i686.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5534-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5534
Issue date: 2023-10-09

Topic

An update for libvpx 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update important heap overflow libvpx encoding crash

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

2241191 - CVE-2023-5217 libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx

2241806 - CVE-2023-44488 libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx

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