CVE-2019-17371

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gif2png version 2.5.13 libpng (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a memory leak in the writefile function and concerns the png malloc warn and png create info struct functions of the libpng library. This is due to a resource not being released after its valid lifetime has expired. Exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For gif2png version 2.5.13, update to a version that fixes the memory leak in the writefile function. For libpng, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.