[RHSA-2023:5537-01] Important: libvpx security update

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Important: libvpx security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2023:5537-01
Product:           Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5537
Issue date:        2023-10-09
CVE Names:         CVE-2023-5217 CVE-2023-44488 
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1. Summary:

An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

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

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):

Source:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_8.src.rpm

aarch64:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_8.s390x.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.s390x.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.s390x.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_8.i686.rpm
libvpx-1.7.0-10.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.i686.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.i686.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.i686.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8):

aarch64:
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.s390x.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.s390x.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_8.s390x.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.i686.rpm
libvpx-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.i686.rpm
libvpx-debugsource-1.7.0-10.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_8.i686.rpm
libvpx-devel-1.7.0-10.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.i686.rpm
libvpx-utils-debuginfo-1.7.0-10.el8_8.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5217
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-44488
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert at redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
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