GHSA-qqvq-6xgj-jw8g

Electron affected by libvpx's heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding

At a glance

Published: 2023-09-28 18:30 UTC
Updated: 2026-09-10 03:50 UTC
CVE: CVE-2023-5217
CVSS_V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Affected packages

Package	Versions
npm · electron	introduced 0, fixed 22.3.25
npm · electron	introduced 24.0.0, fixed 24.8.5
npm · electron	introduced 25.0.0, fixed 25.8.4
npm · electron	introduced 26.0.0, fixed 26.2.4
npm · electron	introduced 27.0.0-alpha.1, fixed 27.0.0-beta.8

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5217 ADVISORY
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/40022 WEB
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/40023 WEB
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/40024 WEB
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/40025 WEB
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/40026 WEB
https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/commit/af6dedd715f4307669366944cca6e0417b290282 WEB
https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/commit/3fbd1dca6a4d2dad332a2110d646e4ffef36d590 WEB
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BCVSHVX2RFBU3RMCUFSATVQEJUFD4Q63 WEB
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CWEJYS5NC7KVFYU3OAMPKQDYN6JQGVK6 WEB
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TE7F54W5O5RS4ZMAAC7YK3CZWQXIDSKB WEB
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WTRUIS3564P7ZLM2S2IH4Y4KZ327LI4I WEB
https://pastebin.com/TdkC4pDv WEB
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-5217 WEB
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-04 WEB
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-34 WEB
https://stackdiary.com/google-discloses-a-webm-vp8-bug-tracked-as-cve-2023-5217 WEB
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213961 WEB
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213972 WEB
https://twitter.com/maddiestone/status/1707163313711497266 WEB
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5508 WEB
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5509 WEB
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5510 WEB
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-44 WEB
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/5 WEB
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/new-0-day-in-chrome-and-firefox-is-likely-to-plague-other-software WEB
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241191 WEB
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html WEB
https://crbug.com/1486441 WEB
https://github.com/electron/electron PACKAGE
https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v22.3.25 WEB
https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v24.8.5 WEB
https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v25.8.4 WEB
https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v26.2.4 WEB
https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v27.0.0-beta.8 WEB
https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/releases/tag/v1.13.1 WEB
https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/tags WEB
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00038.html WEB
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00001.html WEB
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00015.html WEB
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4MFWDFJSSIFKWKNOCTQCFUNZWAXUCSS4 WEB
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/55YVCZNAVY3Y5E4DWPWMX2SPKZ2E5SOV WEB
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AY642Z6JZODQJE7Z62CFREVUHEGCXGPD WEB
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/12 WEB
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/16 WEB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/5 WEB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/6 WEB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/1 WEB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/11 WEB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/12 WEB

Sources

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