Security News > 2023 > October > Microsoft Edge, Teams get fixes for zero-days in open-source libraries
Microsoft released emergency security updates for Edge, Teams, and Skype to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source libraries used by the three products.
The libwebp library is used by a large number of projects for encoding and decoding images in the WebP format, including modern web browsers like Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and the native Android web browsers, as well as popular apps like 1Password and Signal.
"Microsoft is aware and has released patches associated with the two Open-Source Software security vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-4863 and CVE-2023-5217," Redmond revealed in a Microsoft Security Response Center advisory.
The two security flaws only affect a limited number of Microsoft products, with the company patching Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Teams for Desktop, Skype for Desktop, and Webp Image Extensions against CVE-2023-4863 and Microsoft Edge against CVE-2023-5217.
The security update will not be installed if Microsoft Store automatic updates are disabled.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-28 | CVE-2023-5217 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. | 8.8 |
| 2023-09-12 | CVE-2023-4863 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products Heap buffer overflow in libwebp in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.187 and libwebp 1.3.2 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page. | 8.8 |