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
HighMetricsAV: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. Found an issue in the description? Have something to add? Feel free to write us 👾