Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2960
Advisory Released Date: 2025-08-04
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-08-04
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
VP9 in libvpx before 1.13.1 mishandles widths, leading to a crash related to encoding. (CVE-2023-44488)
A heap overflow vulnerability exists in libvpx - Encoding a frame that has larger dimensions than the originally configured size with VP9 may result in a heap overflow in libvpx.
We recommend upgrading to version 1.13.1 or above (CVE-2023-6349)
Affected Packages:
libvpx
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libvpx or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2025-2960 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
libvpx-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
libvpx-devel-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
libvpx-utils-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
libvpx-debuginfo-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
i686:
libvpx-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.i686
libvpx-devel-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.i686
libvpx-utils-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.i686
libvpx-debuginfo-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.i686
src:
libvpx-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.src
x86_64:
libvpx-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
libvpx-devel-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
libvpx-utils-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
libvpx-debuginfo-1.9.0-5.amzn2.0.3.x86_64