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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2023-5217 Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2023-5217 Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/28/2023
Created
09/28/2023
Added
09/28/2023
Modified
01/28/2025

Description

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)

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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