CVE-2023-44488

HIGH

Webmproject Libvpx < 1.13.1 - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule

Description

VP9 in libvpx before 1.13.1 mishandles widths, leading to a crash related to encoding.

References (10)

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241806

[Patch] https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/commit/263682c9a29395055f3b3afe2d97be1828a6223f

[Patch] https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/commit/df9fd9d5b7325060b2b921558a1eb20ca7880937

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

[Patch] https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/compare/v1.13.0...v1.13.1

[Release Notes] https://github.com/webmproject/libvpx/releases/tag/v1.13.1

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/30/4

[Mailing List] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00001.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-04

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5518

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TE7F54W5O5RS4ZMAAC7YK3CZWQXIDSKB/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0145

EPSS Percentile 80.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-755

Status published

Products (7)

debian/debian_linux 10.0

debian/debian_linux 11.0

debian/debian_linux 12.0

fedoraproject/fedora 37

redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0

redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0

webmproject/libvpx < 1.13.1

Published Sep 30, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026