Input validation error in Debian Linux - CVE-2015-1258
Published: May 20, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40781
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1258
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65 relies on libvpx code that was not built with an appropriate --size-limit value, which allows remote attackers to trigger a negative value for a size field, and consequently cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a crafted frame size in VP9 video data.
Affected software
Debian Linux
Fedora
libvpx
Fedora
libvpx
How to mitigate CVE-2015-1258
Install update from vendor's website.
libvpx - addressed in versions 1.3.0-7.fc21, 1.3.0-7.fc22, 1.4.0-5.fc23
External References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168803.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166975.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167428.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3267
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74723
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032375
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=450939
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1106303002
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04