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An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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: Denial of service in mediaserver (CVE-2017-0393)
• libvpx: Out of bounds read in vp8_norm table (CVE-2019-9232)
• libvpx: Use-after-free in vp8_deblock() in vp8/common/postproc.c (CVE-2019-9433)
• libvpx: Out of bounds read in vp8_decode_frame in decodeframe.c (CVE-2020-0034)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

After installing the update, all applications using libvpx must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1769657 - CVE-2017-0393 libvpx: Denial of service in mediaserver
• BZ - 1788966 - CVE-2019-9232 libvpx: Out of bounds read in vp8_norm table
• BZ - 1788994 - CVE-2019-9433 libvpx: Use-after-free in vp8_deblock() in vp8/common/postproc.c
• BZ - 1813000 - CVE-2020-0034 libvpx: Out of bounds read in vp8_decode_frame in decodeframe.c

CVEs

• CVE-2017-0393
• CVE-2019-9232
• CVE-2019-9433
• CVE-2020-0034

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index