CVE-2024-5197 Affecting libvpx-devel package, versions <0:1.9.0-8.el9_5


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY9-LIBVPXDEVEL-9464173
  • published18 Mar 2025
  • disclosed3 Jun 2024

Introduced: 3 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-5197  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:9 libvpx-devel to version 0:1.9.0-8.el9_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:9827.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvpx-devel package and not the libvpx-devel package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

There exists interger overflows in libvpx in versions prior to 1.14.1. Calling vpx_img_alloc() with a large value of the d_w, d_h, or align parameter may result in integer overflows in the calculations of buffer sizes and offsets and some fields of the returned vpx_image_t struct may be invalid. Calling vpx_img_wrap() with a large value of the d_w, d_h, or stride_align parameter may result in integer overflows in the calculations of buffer sizes and offsets and some fields of the returned vpx_image_t struct may be invalid. We recommend upgrading to version 1.14.1 or beyond

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1