SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : libvpx (SUSE-SU-2024:2409-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 202250

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2409-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-5197: Fixed interger overflow when calling vpx_img_alloc() or vpx_img_wrap() with large parameters (bsc#1225879).
- CVE-2023-6349: Fixed heap overflow when encoding a frame that has larger dimensions than the originally configured size (bsc#1225403).
- CVE-2023-44488: Fixed heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding (bsc#1216879).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libvpx-devel, libvpx7, libvpx7-32bit and / or vpx-tools packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 202250

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2409-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/12/2024

Updated: 7/23/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-5197

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Threat Score: 5.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vpx-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvpx7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libvpx-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-44488, CVE-2023-6349, CVE-2024-5197

IAVA: 2024-A-0464

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2409-1

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