CVE-2023-5217

Published: 29 September 2023

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. (Chromium security severity: High)

Notes

Author	Note
alexmurray	The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just a script that installs the Chromium snap
tyhicks	mozjs contains a copy of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 22.04, the firefox package is just a script that installs the Firefox snap

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
chromium-browser Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
	bionic	Ignored (end of standard support)
	focal	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	jammy	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	lunar	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	upstream	Released
	mantic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
	bionic	Ignored (end of standard support)
	jammy	Needs triage
	lunar	Needs triage
	upstream	Needs triage
	focal	Released (118.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	mantic	Needs triage
thunderbird Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
	bionic	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	focal	Released (1:115.3.1+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
	jammy	Released (1:115.3.1+build1-0ubuntu0.22.04.2)
	lunar	Released (1:115.3.1+build1-0ubuntu0.23.04.1)
	mantic	Needed
mozjs38 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	mantic	Does not exist
mozjs52 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	mantic	Does not exist
mozjs68 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	mantic	Does not exist
mozjs78 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Needs triage
	lunar	Needs triage
	upstream	Needs triage
	mantic	Does not exist
mozjs91 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Needs triage
	lunar	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	mantic	Does not exist
mozjs102 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Does not exist
	xenial	Does not exist
	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Needs triage
	lunar	Needs triage
	upstream	Needs triage
	mantic	Needs triage
libvpx Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	trusty	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1+esm2) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
	upstream	Needs triage
	focal	Released (1.8.2-1ubuntu0.2)
	jammy	Released (1.11.0-2ubuntu2.2)
	lunar	Released (1.12.0-1ubuntu1.2)
	mantic	Pending (1.12.0-1ubuntu2)
	bionic	Released (1.7.0-3ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053182

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