Issued at: 2026-03-18
Updated at: 2026-03-19
Synopsis
Important: libvpx security update
Description
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.
Security Fix(es):
* libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217)
* libvpx: crash related to VP9 encoding in libvpx (CVE-2023-44488)
For 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.