RHSA-2020:3876 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libvpx security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · September 30, 2020
Updated · June 27, 2026
Topic
An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 libvpx packages provide the VP8 SDK, which allows the encoding and decoding of the VP8 video codec, commonly used with the WebM multimedia container file format.
Security Fix(es):
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libvpx: Denial of service in mediaserver (CVE-2017-0393)
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libvpx: Out of bounds read in vp8_norm table (CVE-2019-9232)
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libvpx: Use-after-free in vp8_deblock() in vp8/common/postproc.c (CVE-2019-9433)
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libvpx: Out of bounds read in vp8_decode_frame in decodeframe.c (CVE-2020-0034)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.