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Medium ALAS2-2025-2960 2 CVEs

Moderate: libvpx security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jul 29, 2025 · Updated Aug 4, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-6349: A heap overflow vulnerability exists in libvpx - Encoding a frame that has larger dimensions than the originally configured size with VP9 may result in a heap overflow in libvpx. We recommend upgrading to version 1.13.1 or above CVE-2023-44488: VP9 in libvpx before 1.13.1 mishandles widths, leading to a crash related to encoding.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libvpx 0:1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 libvpx-debuginfo 0:1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 libvpx-devel 0:1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 libvpx-utils 0:1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-44488.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-6349.html