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RHSA-2026:5230 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libvpx security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · March 23, 2026

Updated · October 2, 2026

Topic

An update for libvpx is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service.

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 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):

  • libvpx: Heap buffer overflow in libvpx (CVE-2026-2447)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2026:5230 — Red Hat Security Advisory: libvpx security update | PulseLinux