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CVE-2009-0749

NVDCIRCLENISA

EUVD-2009-0749 · Published Mar 2, 2009

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GIFReadNextExtension function in lib/pngxtern/gif/gifread.c in OptiPNG 0.6.2 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted GIF image that causes the realloc function to return a new pointer, which triggers memory corruption when the old pointer is accessed.

Technologies

Suse Linux EnterpriseOpensuse OpensuseOptipng_Project Optipng

Weaknesses

CWE-416

CVSS scores

  • v3.17.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.09.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

MITRE ATT&CK

Inferred

Where this vulnerability fits in an attack

Initial Access

References

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