Chrome’s second zero-day of the month puts fed security at 'significant risk'
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The vulnerability itself is a heap buffer overflow vulnerability affecting VP8 encoding in libvpx, an open source video codec library from the WebM Project. However, the public has been told the vulnerability can be exploited using a specially crafted HTML page and VP8 media stream to exploit heap corruption.
"These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise," CISA said in itsAlthough the mitigation deadlines outlined in the KEV Catalog apply only to FCEB agencies, CISA urged all organizations to apply the recommended fixes in a"timely" way.
It additionally revealed that"certain versions" of Microsoft Teams and Skype are also vulnerable to CVE-2023-5217, saying"Microsoft is working to identify and address this vulnerability as soon as possible."
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