CVE-2023-5217

Product

Google / Chromium libvpx

Vulnerability

Google Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Added to KEV

Oct 2, 2023

Remediate by

Oct 23, 2023

Known ransomware use

No

Summary description

Google Chromium libvpx contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in vp8 encoding that allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability could impact web browsers using libvpx, including but not limited to Google Chrome.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Notes

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5217