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A libvpx security update has been released for Fedora 37.



[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: libvpx-1.12.0-4.fc37


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-f696934fbf
2023-10-23 01:24:04.606182
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Name : libvpx
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 1.12.0
Release : 4.fc37
URL : http://www.webmproject.org/code/
Summary : VP8/VP9 Video Codec SDK
Description :
libvpx provides the VP8/VP9 SDK, which allows you to integrate your applications
with the VP8 and VP9 video codecs, high quality, royalty free, open source codecs
deployed on millions of computers and devices worldwide.

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Update Information:

Security fixes for CVE-2023-5217 and CVE-2023-44488
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 4 2023 Boudhayan Bhattacharya [bbhtt.zn0i8@slmail.me] - 1.12.0-4
- Patch for CVE-2023-44488
* Fri Sep 29 2023 Neal Gompa [ngompa@fedoraproject.org] - 1.12.0-3
- Minor spec cleanups
* Thu Sep 28 2023 Boudhayan Bhattacharya [bbhtt.zn0i8@slmail.me] - 1.12.0-2
- Patch for CVE-2023-5217
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2241260 - CVE-2023-5217 libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241260
[ 2 ] Bug #2241812 - CVE-2023-44488 libvpx: TRIAGE-CVE-2023-44488 libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241812
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-f696934fbf' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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