USN-7249-1: libvpx vulnerability

3 February 2025

libvpx could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted image file.

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Releases

Packages

  • libvpx - VP8 and VP9 video codec

Details

Xiantong Hou discovered that libvpx would overflow when attempting to
allocate memory for very large images. If an application using libvpx
opened a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial
of service, or the execution of arbitrary code.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the
necessary changes.

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