vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-44488: Medium priority package update for libvpx

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 30, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

Description

VP9 in libvpx before 1.13.1 mishandles widths, leading to a crash related to encoding.
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libvpx, a library used to process VP9 video codecs data. This issue occurs when processing certain specially formatted video data via a crafted HTML page, allowing an attacker to crash or remotely execute arbitrary code in an application, such as a web browser that is compiled with this library.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libvpxamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libvpx-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libvpx-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libvpx-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libvpx-utilsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-libvpx-utils-debuginfo
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