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A libvpx security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: libvpx-1.13.0-5.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-c896cf87db
2023-10-01 04:54:26.057814
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Name : libvpx
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 1.13.0
Release : 5.fc38
URL : http://www.webmproject.org/code/
Summary : VP8/VP9 Video Codec SDK
Description :
libvpx provides the VP8/VP9 SDK, which allows you to integrate your applications
with the VP8 and VP9 video codecs, high quality, royalty free, open source codecs
deployed on millions of computers and devices worldwide.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2023-5217
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Sep 29 2023 Neal Gompa [ngompa@fedoraproject.org] - 1.13.0-5
- Minor spec cleanups
* Thu Sep 28 2023 Boudhayan Bhattacharya [bbhtt.zn0i8@slmail.me] - 1.13.0-4
- Patch for CVE-2023-5217
* Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering [releng@fedoraproject.org] - 1.13.0-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2241260 - CVE-2023-5217 libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241260
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-c896cf87db' 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

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