Amazon Linux 2 : libvpx, --advisory ALAS2-2025-3015 (ALAS-2025-3015)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 266182

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 ALAS2-2025-3015 advisory.

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 (CVE-2024-5197)

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' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-3015' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 266182

File Name: al2_ALAS-2025-3015.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/30/2025

Updated: 9/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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:amazon:linux:libvpx-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvpx-utils, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvpx, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libvpx-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-5197

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