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Medium RLSA-2021:4231 8 CVEs

Moderate: libwebp security update

Published Nov 9, 2021 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

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: out-of-bounds read in WebPMuxCreateInternal (CVE-2018-25009)

* libwebp: out-of-bounds read in ApplyFilter() (CVE-2018-25010)

* libwebp: out-of-bounds read in WebPMuxCreateInternal() (CVE-2018-25012)

* libwebp: out-of-bounds read in ShiftBytes() (CVE-2018-25013)

* libwebp: use of uninitialized value in ReadSymbol() (CVE-2018-25014)

* libwebp: out-of-bounds read in ChunkVerifyAndAssign() in mux/muxread.c (CVE-2020-36330)

* libwebp: out-of-bounds read in ChunkAssignData() in mux/muxinternal.c (CVE-2020-36331)

* libwebp: excessive memory allocation when reading a file (CVE-2020-36332)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 libwebp 0:1.0.0-5.el8

Vulnerabilities 8

References

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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956853
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956856
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956868
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956917
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956918
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956922
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956926
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956927