Users of libvpx please be advised of a buffer-overflow vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-1015-1: [USN-1015-1] libvpx buffer-overflow vulnerability
Details follow:
Christoph Diehl discovered that libvpx did not properly perform bounds
checking. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted
WebM file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute
code as the user invoking the program.
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/f5zz
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