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A libwebp security update has been released for Fedora 37.



[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: libwebp-1.3.1-3.fc37


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-3388038193
2023-09-16 01:40:12.903894
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Name : libwebp
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 1.3.1
Release : 3.fc37
URL : http://webmproject.org/
Summary : Library and tools for the WebP graphics format
Description :
WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital
photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a
container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser
developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital
images more efficiently.

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Update Information:

Backport fix for CVE-2023-4863.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Sep 13 2023 Boudhayan Bhattacharya [bbhtt.zn0i8@slmail.me] - 1.3.1-3
- Add patch for CVE-2023-4863 ref rhbz#2238543
* Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering [releng@fedoraproject.org] - 1.3.1-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2238543 - CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238543
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-3388038193' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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