RHSA-2021:2364 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libwebp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive, and distribute digital images more efficiently.

Security Fix(es):

• libwebp: heap-based buffer overflow in PutLE16() (CVE-2018-25011)
• libwebp: heap-based buffer overflow in WebPDecode*Into functions (CVE-2020-36328)
• libwebp: use-after-free in EmitFancyRGB() in dec/io_dec.c (CVE-2020-36329)

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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1956829 - CVE-2020-36328 libwebp: heap-based buffer overflow in WebPDecode*Into functions
• BZ - 1956843 - CVE-2020-36329 libwebp: use-after-free in EmitFancyRGB() in dec/io_dec.c
• BZ - 1956919 - CVE-2018-25011 libwebp: heap-based buffer overflow in PutLE16()

CVEs

• CVE-2018-25011
• CVE-2020-36328
• CVE-2020-36329

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important