USN-6403-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in libvpx. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed media files. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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