{"id":"RLSA-2023:5537","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\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":"2026-03-18T07:30:26.610326Z","published":"2026-03-18T06:01:13.733535Z","upstream":["CVE-2023-44488","CVE-2023-5217"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2023:5537"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241191"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241806"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libvpx","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/libvpx?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:1.7.0-10.el8_8"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2023:5537.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}