PT-2019-4531

CVE-2019-17371

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Published

2019-10-09

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Updated

2022-03-31

Description by

CVSS 2.0
7.8
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.
Exploitability
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Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2021-1096
ALT-PU-2021-1133
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