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Amazon Linux 2 : libvpx (ALAS-2025-2897)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240457

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of libvpx installed on the remote host is prior to 1.9.0-5. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2897 advisory.

 Use after free in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 137.0.7151.55 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

 Duplicate: https://console.harmony.a2z.com/al-cve-eval/cve/TEMP-1106689-EC87F6 (CVE-2025-5283)

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

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

Solution

Run 'yum update libvpx' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2025-2897.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-5283.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240457

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-2897.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/25/2025

Updated: 6/25/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5283

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvpx-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvpx, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvpx-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvpx-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5283

IAVA: 2025-A-0381-S