RHSA-2023:5540 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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 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.

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2241191 - CVE-2023-5217 libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx
• BZ - 2241806 - CVE-2023-44488 libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx

CVEs

• CVE-2023-5217
• CVE-2023-44488

References

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