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CVE-2023-5217

Published: Sep 28, 2023

Modified: Oct 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Google	Chrome	affected `117.0.5938.132 - < 117.0.5938.132`
Google	libvpx	affected `1.13.1 - < 1.13.1`

References

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html

https://crbug.com/1486441

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/9

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-44/

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-5217

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241191

https://stackdiary.com/google-discloses-a-webm-vp8-bug-tracked-as-cve-2023-5217/

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/5

https://pastebin.com/TdkC4pDv

https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/commit/3fbd1dca6a4d2dad332a2110d646e4ffef36d590

https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/commit/af6dedd715f4307669366944cca6e0417b290282

https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/tags

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/11

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/12

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/14

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5510

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5509

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5508

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/1

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00038.html

https://twitter.com/maddiestone/status/1707163313711497266

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/new-0-day-in-chrome-and-firefox-is-likely-to-plague-other-software/

https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/releases/tag/v1.13.1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/5

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BCVSHVX2RFBU3RMCUFSATVQEJUFD4Q63/

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/01/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/01/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/01/5

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00001.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WTRUIS3564P7ZLM2S2IH4Y4KZ327LI4I/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/55YVCZNAVY3Y5E4DWPWMX2SPKZ2E5SOV/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4MFWDFJSSIFKWKNOCTQCFUNZWAXUCSS4/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CWEJYS5NC7KVFYU3OAMPKQDYN6JQGVK6/

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/02/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/11

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-04

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213961

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD/

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/12

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213972

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/16

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TE7F54W5O5RS4ZMAAC7YK3CZWQXIDSKB/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34

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