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libvpx -- multiple buffer overflows

Affected packages
	libvpx	<	1.4.0.488
	firefox	<	40.0,1
	linux-firefox	<	40.0,1

Details

VuXML ID	34e60332-2448-4ed6-93f0-12713749f250
Discovery	2015-08-11
Entry	2015-08-11
Modified	2015-08-14

The Mozilla Project reports:

Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two buffer overflow issues in the Libvpx library used for WebM video when decoding a malformed WebM video file. These buffer overflows result in potentially exploitable crashes.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2015-4485
CVE Name	CVE-2015-4486
URL	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2015-89/