CriticalCVECISA — Known Exploited Vulnerabilities· 2 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-5217 — Google Chromium libvpx Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Severity: Critical · Kind: Vulnerability

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Google Chromium libvpx. Google Chromium libvpx contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in vp8 encoding that allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability could impact web browsers using libvpx, including but not limited to Google Chrome. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Vulnerability facts

CVE: CVE-2023-5217
On CISA KEV since: 2023-10-02
Ransomware use: Unknown

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