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8.8 High Exploited

CVE-2023-5217 Google Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Active exploitation observed

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Required action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Ransomware campaigns Not observed so far
Weakness CWE-787

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. (Chromium security severity: High)

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Chrome 117.0 earliest → < 117.0.5938.132 117.0.5938.132
libvpx 1.13 earliest → < 1.13.1 1.13.1

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