{"id":"ALSA-2023:5539","summary":"Important: libvpx security update","details":"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.\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217)\n* libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-44488)\n\nFor 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.","modified":"2026-02-04T02:19:01.595100Z","published":"2023-10-09T00:00:00Z","related":["CVE-2023-44488","CVE-2023-5217"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5539"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-44488"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5217"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2241191"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2241806"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-5539.html"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libvpx","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/libvpx"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.9.0-7.el9_2.alma.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2023:5539.json"}},{"package":{"name":"libvpx-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:9","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/libvpx-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.9.0-7.el9_2.alma.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux9/ALSA-2023:5539.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}