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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 19:20:11 +0100
From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@...world.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8
encoding in libvpx
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 11:37:23AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Google has announced another media parsing bug, this time correctly documenting
> both the base library and Chrome versions affected in the CVE.
>
> https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5217 states:
>
> 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)
>
Does anyone know how far back libvpx is affected ? Asking because
seamonkey-2.53.17.1 is apparently shipping a version of libvpx-1.7.0
from 2020 and I'm told it no longer builds against system
libvpx-1.13.1, although a recent version apparently built against
libvpx-1.11.0.
ĸen
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