RHSA-2026:5230 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: libvpx security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
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.