Summary
USN-6403-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in libvpx. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
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 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS | libvpx | 1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1+esm2 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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High 8.8
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)
KEV Oct 2, 2023 -
Unscored —
VP9 in libvpx before 1.13.1 mishandles widths, leading to a crash related to encoding.