RHSA-2018:1058 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libvorbis security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · April 11, 2018

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for libvorbis is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libvorbis package contains runtime libraries for use in programs that support Ogg Vorbis, a fully open, non-proprietary, patent- and royalty-free, general-purpose compressed format for audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates.

Security Fix(es):

  • Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) (CVE-2018-5146)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla Project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Richard Zhu via Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative as the original reporter.

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