Double Free Affecting stb package, versions <0_git20231012-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-STB-8489568
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed21 Oct 2023

Introduced: 21 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-45664  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 stb to version 0_git20231012-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream stb package and not the stb package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

stb_image is a single file MIT licensed library for processing images. A crafted image file can trigger stbi__load_gif_main_outofmem attempt to double-free the out variable. This happens in stbi__load_gif_main because when the layers * stride value is zero the behavior is implementation defined, but common that realloc frees the old memory and returns null pointer. Since it attempts to double-free the memory a few lines below the first “free”, the issue can be potentially exploited only in a multi-threaded environment. In the worst case this may lead to code execution.

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