Cosmin Truta OptiPNG up to 0.6.2 gifread.c realloc resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cosmin Truta OptiPNG and classified as critical. The affected element is the function realloc in the library lib/pngxtern/gif/gifread.c. The manipulation results in resource management. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2009-0749. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cosmin Truta OptiPNG. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function realloc in the library lib/pngxtern/gif/gifread.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GIFReadNextExtension function in lib/pngxtern/gif/gifread.c in OptiPNG 0.6.2 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted GIF image that causes the realloc function to return a new pointer, which triggers memory corruption when the old pointer is accessed.

The bug was discovered 02/22/2009. The weakness was disclosed 03/02/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at vupen.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2009-0749 since 03/02/2009. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 8 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 40097 (openSUSE Security Update : optipng (optipng-972)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165632 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update (SUSE-SR:2009:012)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (48879), Tenable (40097), SecurityFocus (BID 33873†), OSVDB (55788†) and Secunia (SA34035†). The entries VDB-46941, VDB-46940, VDB-46498 and VDB-47986 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 40097
Nessus Name: openSUSE Security Update : optipng (optipng-972)
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OpenVAS ID: 63458
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-2098 (optipng)
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
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CVE: CVE-2009-0749 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-0749
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-46932
X-Force: 48879
SecurityFocus: 33873 - OptiPNG GIF Image Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 34035 - OptiPNG "GIFReadNextExtension()" Use-After-Free Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 55788 - OptiPNG - GIF Image Handling Memory Corruption Issue
Vulnerability Center: 21221 - OptiPNG 0.6.2 and Prior DoS Vulnerability via a Crafted GIF Image, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2009-0510

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/30/2019 14:09
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (82), 08/30/2019 14:09 (5)
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Cache ID: 216:1F9:103

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