Executive Summary

Summary
Title libvpx vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-4199-1 First vendor Publication 2019-11-25
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-11-25
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in libvpx.

Software Description: - libvpx: VP8 and VP9 video codec

Details:

It was discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed WebM media files. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted WebM file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
libvpx5 1.7.0-3ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libvpx5 1.7.0-3ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libvpx3 1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4199-1
CVE-2017-13194, CVE-2019-2126, CVE-2019-9232, CVE-2019-9325,
CVE-2019-9371, CVE-2019-9433

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvpx/1.7.0-3ubuntu0.19.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvpx/1.7.0-3ubuntu0.18.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvpx/1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4199-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
33 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
17 % CWE-415 Double Free

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 5
Os 4
Os 2
Os 10
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-05-11 Name : The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.
File : al2_ALAS-2018-1015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-09 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2018-967.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-03-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4132.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-02-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1290.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-24 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-6349371aa1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2019-11-25 17:19:13
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