CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-45666
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
stb_image is a single file MIT licensed library for processing images. It may look like `stbi__load_gif_main` doesn’t give guarantees about the content of output value `*delays` upon failure. Although it sets `*delays` to zero at the beginning, it doesn’t do it in case the image is not recognized as GIF and a call to `stbi__load_gif_main_outofmem` only frees possibly allocated memory in `*delays` without resetting it to zero. Thus it would be fair to say the caller of `stbi__load_gif_main` is responsible to free the allocated memory in `*delays` only if `stbi__load_gif_main` returns a non null value. However at the same time the function may return null value, but fail to free the memory in `*delays` if internally `stbi__convert_format` is called and fails. Thus the issue may lead to a memory leak if the caller chooses to free `delays` only when `stbi__load_gif_main` didn’t fail or to a double-free if the `delays` is always freed
Affected configurations
• nothings stb image.h 2.28
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/5736b15f7ea0ffb08dd38af21067c314d6a3aae9/stb_image.h#L6957 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/5736b15f7ea0ffb08dd38af21067c314d6a3aae9/stb_image.h#L6962-L7045 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NMXKOKPP4BKTNUTF5KSRDQAWOUILQZNO/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QVABVF4GEM6BYD5L4L64RCRSXUHY6LGN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UVQ7ONFH5GWLMXYEAJG32A3EUKUCEVCR/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-145_GHSL-2023-151_stb_image_h/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/5736b15f7ea0ffb08dd38af21067c314d6a3aae9/stb_image.h#L6957 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/5736b15f7ea0ffb08dd38af21067c314d6a3aae9/stb_image.h#L6962-L7045 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NMXKOKPP4BKTNUTF5KSRDQAWOUILQZNO/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QVABVF4GEM6BYD5L4L64RCRSXUHY6LGN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UVQ7ONFH5GWLMXYEAJG32A3EUKUCEVCR/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-145_GHSL-2023-151_stb_image_h/ Third Party Advisory