Bug 1318185 (CVE-2016-1621) - CVE-2016-1621 libvpx: remote code execution via crafted media file
Summary: CVE-2016-1621 libvpx: remote code execution via crafted media file
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-1621
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1318187 1318188 1318189
Blocks: 1318190
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-16 08:59 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-04-05 09:01:38 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-03-16 08:59:33 UTC
A vulnerability was found in libvpx. A maliciously crafted media file allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. 

Upstream fix:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/04839626ed859623901ebd3a5fd483982186b59d%5E!/#F1

References:

http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/680036/

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-03-16 09:00:34 UTC
Created compat-libvpx1 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-23 [bug 1318188]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-03-16 09:00:40 UTC
Created libvpx tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1318187]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1318189]

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2016-04-05 09:01:38 UTC
There does not seem to be any technical details public about this issue.  There is this Android security bulletin:

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html#remote_code_execution_vulnerabilities_in_libvpx

linking the following commits:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/5a6788730acfc6fd8f4a6ef89d2c376572a26b55
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/04839626ed859623901ebd3a5fd483982186b59d
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/5a9753fca56f0eeb9f61e342b2fccffc364f9426

Apparently, the problem fixed is in the libwebm library embedded in libvpx.  As libvpx versions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 pre-date inclusion of libwebm in libvpx, they can not be affected by this issue.  Similar applies to libvpx in EPEL-5 or compat-libvpx1 in Fedora.


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