USN-6403-1 — libvpx vulnerabilities

Summary

It was discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed
media files. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted
file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 2

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS	libvpx	1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS	libvpx	1.11.0-2ubuntu2.2

Vulnerabilities 2

High 8.8

CVE-2023-5217 Exploited Public exploit EPSS 49%

Electron affected by libvpx's heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Google Chrome libvpx chromium Browsers Debian Ubuntu Alpine npm

Sep 28, 2023
KEV Oct 2, 2023
Unscored —

CVE-2023-44488

VP9 in libvpx before 1.13.1 mishandles widths, leading to a crash related to encoding.

mozjs38 mozjs52 mozjs68 mozjs78 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

Sep 30, 2023

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5217
report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-44488

libvpx vulnerabilities

Summary

Fixed packages 2

Vulnerabilities 2

Electron affected by libvpx's heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding

VP9 in libvpx before 1.13.1 mishandles widths, leading to a crash related to encoding.

References