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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2012-1 libvpx -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

28 Nov 2019

Affected Packages:

libvpx

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-9232, CVE-2019-9433.

More information:

Several issues have been found in libvpx, a VP8 and VP9 video codec.

• CVE-2019-9232

  There is a possible out of bounds read due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

• CVE-2019-9433

  There is a possible information disclosure due to improper input validation. This could lead to remote information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.0-3+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvpx packages.

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