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Red Hat: CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/28/2023
Created
10/05/2023
Added
10/05/2023
Modified
09/03/2024

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-x11
  • redhat-upgrade-libvpx
  • redhat-upgrade-libvpx-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libvpx-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-libvpx-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libvpx-utils-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

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