Electron affected by libvpx's heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding
Date: 2023-09
Affected: npm/electron, npm/electron, npm/electron
Attack vector: other
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2023-5217
CWE: CWE-787
CVSS: 8.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.


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