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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2023-5217

High
7.3/10

Summary

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx versions prior to 1.13.1 and Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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