Double Free Affecting libstb package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.96% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-LIBSTB-6023916
  • published22 Oct 2023
  • disclosed21 Oct 2023

Introduced: 21 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-45666  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:13 libstb.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libstb package and not the libstb package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

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version 3.1