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Posted on 09 October 2023
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: libvpx security update
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
CVE Names: CVE-2023-5217 CVE-2023-44488
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1. Summary:
An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
Update Services for SAP Solutions.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
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.
4. 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.
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
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
6. 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/
7. 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
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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