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Red Hat Enterprise 8.1 RHSA-2023-5535 Important: Libvpx Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial security patch released for libvpx tackling severe vulnerabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1.
An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions

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 important heap overflow Red Hat Enterprise encoding issue libvpx VP9 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 E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.src.rpm
aarch64: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.i686.rpm libvpx-1.7.0-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.i686.rpm libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_1.i686.rpm libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.i686.rpm libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-8.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5535-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5535
Issue date: 2023-10-09

Topic

An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Update Services for SAP Solutions.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 important heap overflow Red Hat Enterprise encoding issue libvpx VP9 crash

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, 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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