CVE-2009-0749

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CVE-2009-0749

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CVE-2009-0749 at MITRE

Description

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 479067 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 505103 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2009:006, published Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SR:2009:012, published Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000

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CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:40:24 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Sep 21 19:10:51 2024