ALSA-2023:5537

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    ALSA-2023:5537

    Published: 9 Oct 2023Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Important: libvpx security update

    Details: The libvpx packages provide the VP8 SDK, which allows the encoding and decoding of the VP8 video codec, commonly used with the WebM multimedia container file format. Security Fix(es): * libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217) * libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-44488) 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.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5537, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-44488, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5217, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2241191, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2241806, https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-5537.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libvpx

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/libvpx

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7.0-10.el8_8.alma.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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