CVE-2023-5217

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 117.0.5938.132 libvpx versions prior to 1.13.1

Description A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the vp8 encoding in libvpx, a video codec library used by Google Chrome and other browsers, allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. The vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. Google has released a patch to address this issue.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 117.0.5938.132, update to version 117.0.5938.132 or later. For libvpx versions prior to 1.13.1, update to version 1.13.1 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the vp8 encoding feature in libvpx until a patch is available.