| Name | CVE-2023-5217 |
| 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) |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3591-1, DLA-3598-1, DLA-3601-1, DSA-5508-1, DSA-5509-1, DSA-5510-1, DSA-5513-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1053182 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| chromium (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 120.0.6099.224-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 135.0.7049.95-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 138.0.7204.92-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 137.0.7151.119-1 | fixed |
| sid | 138.0.7204.92-1 | fixed |
| firefox (PTS) | sid | 140.0.1-1 | vulnerable |
| firefox-esr (PTS) | bullseye | 115.14.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 128.12.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 128.10.0esr-1~deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 128.12.0esr-1~deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 128.11.0esr-1 | vulnerable |
| sid | 128.12.0esr-1 | vulnerable |
| libvpx (PTS) | bullseye | 1.9.0-1+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1.9.0-1+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.12.0-1+deb12u3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1.12.0-1+deb12u4 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.15.0-2.1 | fixed |
| thunderbird (PTS) | bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:128.12.0esr-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:128.10.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:128.11.0esr-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:128.11.0esr-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:128.12.0esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - chromium <end-of-life> (see DSA 5046)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-44/#CVE-2023-5217
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/5
Fixed by (libvpx): https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/commit/af6dedd715f4307669366944cca6e0417b290282
Fixed by (libvpx): https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/commit/3fbd1dca6a4d2dad332a2110d646e4ffef36d590
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c53f5ef77b62b79af86951a7f9130e1896b695d2
src:firefox, src:firefox-esr and src:thunderbird use the system libvpx starting in bookworm
and above. For older releases still needs the fixes in src:firefox-esr and src:thunderbird.