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ALSA-2023:5537 Not scored

Important: libvpx security update

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.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published October 9, 2023
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 libvpx
AlmaLinux:8 libvpx-devel

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2023:5537

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.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence