vulnerability
Alma Linux: CVE-2023-5217: Important: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Sep 28, 2023 | Oct 10, 2023 | Mar 31, 2026 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 28, 2023
Added
Oct 10, 2023
Modified
Mar 31, 2026
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)
Solutions
alma-upgrade-firefoxalma-upgrade-firefox-x11alma-upgrade-libvpxalma-upgrade-libvpx-develalma-upgrade-thunderbird
References
- CVE-2023-5217
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-5217
- CWE-787
- EUVD-EUVD-2023-2578
- https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-5537.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-5434.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-5435.html
- https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-5539.html
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-2578
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