Red Hat Security Advisory: libvpx security update
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: Double-free in libvpx encoder (CVE-2025-5283) 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.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The libvpx packages, used for encoding and decoding the VP8 video codec, contain a double-free vulnerability in the encoder component identified as CVE-2025-5283. This vulnerability could potentially lead to memory corruption issues. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory (RHSA-2025:9122) and released updated libvpx packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support and related product variants to fix this issue. The advisory references a bug fix (BZ-2368749) and provides updated package versions (libvpx-1.9.0-7.el9_4.1) for multiple architectures.
Potential Impact
The double-free vulnerability in the libvpx encoder could allow an attacker to cause memory corruption, which may lead to application crashes or potentially arbitrary code execution depending on the context of use. The advisory rates the impact as important (high severity). No known exploits in the wild have been reported at the time of the advisory.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated libvpx packages that address this vulnerability. Users of affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support and related variants should apply the provided security update (libvpx-1.9.0-7.el9_4.1) as detailed in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:9122 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying this update fully mitigates the vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory: libvpx security update
Description
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: Double-free in libvpx encoder (CVE-2025-5283) 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.
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Technical Analysis
The libvpx packages, used for encoding and decoding the VP8 video codec, contain a double-free vulnerability in the encoder component identified as CVE-2025-5283. This vulnerability could potentially lead to memory corruption issues. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory (RHSA-2025:9122) and released updated libvpx packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support and related product variants to fix this issue. The advisory references a bug fix (BZ-2368749) and provides updated package versions (libvpx-1.9.0-7.el9_4.1) for multiple architectures.
Potential Impact
The double-free vulnerability in the libvpx encoder could allow an attacker to cause memory corruption, which may lead to application crashes or potentially arbitrary code execution depending on the context of use. The advisory rates the impact as important (high severity). No known exploits in the wild have been reported at the time of the advisory.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated libvpx packages that address this vulnerability. Users of affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support and related variants should apply the provided security update (libvpx-1.9.0-7.el9_4.1) as detailed in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:9122 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying this update fully mitigates the vulnerability.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:9122
- Cve Count
- 1
Threat ID: 6a3da1cd4853345fc18234e5
Added to database: 06/25/2026, 21:46:53 UTC
Last enriched: 06/25/2026, 22:06:04 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:51 UTC
Views: 56
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