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Electron affected by libvpx's heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 28, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 15, 2024

Package

npm electron (npm)

Affected versions

< 22.3.25
>= 24.0.0, < 24.8.5
>= 25.0.0, < 25.8.4
>= 26.0.0, < 26.2.4
>= 27.0.0-alpha.1, < 27.0.0-beta.8

Patched versions

22.3.25
24.8.5
25.8.4
26.2.4
27.0.0-beta.8

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 28, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 28, 2023
Reviewed Oct 5, 2023
Last updated Feb 15, 2024

Severity

High
8.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-5217

GHSA ID

GHSA-qqvq-6xgj-jw8g

Source code

Credits

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