CVE-2024-5197

Publication date 3 June 2024

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Description

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

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libvpx 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1.14.0-1ubuntu2.1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1.12.0-1ubuntu2.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.11.0-2ubuntu2.3
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.8.2-1ubuntu0.3
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.7.0-3ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1+esm3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.3.0-2ubuntu0.1+esm3

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Notes

mdeslaur

This also affects the aom package with CVE-2024-5171

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
libvpx

References

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