CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-0749
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-03-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
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.
Affected configurations
• optipng project optipng (<= 0.6.2)
• opensuse opensuse (>= 10.3 <= 11.1)
• suse linux enterprise 9-11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html Mailing List
- http://optipng.sourceforge.net Product
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34035 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34201 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34259 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685 Broken Link
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2582013&group_id=151404&atid=780913 Issue Tracking
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-12.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/24/2 Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/25/4 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33873 Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0510 Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48879 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html Mailing List
- http://optipng.sourceforge.net Product
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34035 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34201 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34259 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685 Broken Link
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2582013&group_id=151404&atid=780913 Issue Tracking
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-12.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/24/2 Mailing List
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/25/4 Mailing List
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33873 Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0510 Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48879 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry