HIGH8.8
GHSA-qqvq-6xgj-jw8g
Electron affected by libvpx's heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding
Quick fix
GHSA-qqvq-6xgj-jw8g — electron: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install electron@22.3.25Details
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.
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Affected packages
npm/electron
Introduced in:
27.0.0-alpha.1Fixed in: 27.0.0-beta.8Fix
npm install electron@27.0.0-beta.8References
- 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]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/14[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/2[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/7[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/9[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/1[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/2[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/3[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/4[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/5[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/01/1[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/01/2[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/01/5[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/02/6[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/03/11[WEB]