The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:5941 advisory.

    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 related to VP9 encoding (CVE-2023-6349)

    * libvpx: Integer overflow in vpx_img_alloc() (CVE-2024-5197)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : libvpx (RHSA-2024:5941)

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