CVE-2023-5217 — Google Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2023-5217

CVE-2023-5217: Google Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)


Vendor / project	Google
Product	Chromium libvpx
Date added	2023-10-02
Due date	2023-10-23
Ransomware campaign use	Unknown

Description

Google Chromium libvpx contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in vp8 encoding that allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability could impact web browsers using libvpx, including but not limited to Google Chrome.

Required action (CISA)

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Notes

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5217

References

NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5217
KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

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