libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libvpx, a library used to process VP8 and VP9 video codecs data, processes certain specially formatted video data via a crafted HTML page. This flaw allows an attacker to crash or remotely execute arbitrary code in an application, such as a w...

libvpx: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Background libvpx is the VP8 codec SDK used to encode and decode video streams, typically within a WebM format media file. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libvpx. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact Please review the referenced CVE...

GLSA-202310-04 : libvpx: Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202310-04 libvpx: Multiple Vulnerabilities - 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...

USN-6404-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2023-5169, CVE-2023-5170,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: libwebp-1.3.2-2.fc39

WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital images more efficiently...

Heap Buffer Overflow

Google Chrome is vulnerable to Heap Buffer Overflow. The vulnerability exists in the vp8 encoding in libvpx in the library, which allows an attacker to cause heap corruption via a maliciously crafted HTML page...

USN-6403-1: libvpx vulnerabilities

It was discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed media files. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Google and Firefox fixes Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in the Wild

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2023-5217, is actively exploited and has been patched in both Google Chrome and Firefox browsers. CVE-2023-5217 is a Heap buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in...

[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: libvpx-1.13.0-5.fc39

libvpx provides the VP8/VP9 SDK, which allows you to integrate your applicati ons with the VP8 and VP9 video codecs, high quality, royalty free, open source co decs deployed on millions of computers and devices worldwide...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5510-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-3598-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Google Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Google Chromium libvpx contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in vp8 encoding that allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability could impact web browsers using libvpx, including but not limited to Google Chrome...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2023-273-02)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5509-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-3591-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: libvpx-1.13.0-5.fc38

libvpx provides the VP8/VP9 SDK, which allows you to integrate your applicati ons with the VP8 and VP9 video codecs, high quality, royalty free, open source co decs deployed on millions of computers and devices worldwide...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-115.3.1-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains a security fix for a critical heap buff...

[slackware-security] libvpx

New libvpx packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/libvpx-1.12.0-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This release contains two security related fixes -- one each for VP8 and VP9. For more...

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: libwebp-1.3.2-2.fc38

WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital images more efficiently...

Debian DSA-5509-1 : firefox-esr - security update

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5509 advisory. A buffer overflow in VP8 media stream processing has been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code. For...