vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Sep 28, 2023 | Oct 5, 2023 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 28, 2023
Added
Oct 5, 2023
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
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
no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-firefoxredhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginforedhat-upgrade-firefox-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-firefox-x11redhat-upgrade-libvpxredhat-upgrade-libvpx-debuginforedhat-upgrade-libvpx-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-libvpx-develredhat-upgrade-libvpx-utils-debuginforedhat-upgrade-thunderbirdredhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginforedhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource
References
- CWE-787
- NVD-CVE-2023-5217
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5427
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5428
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5430
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5433
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5434
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5435
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5436
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5439
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5475
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5477
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5537
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5538
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5539
- REDHAT-RHSA-2023:5540
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