CVE-2023-1999 (GCVE-0-2023-1999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-20 11:28 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:39
VLAI
Title
Use after free in libwebp
Summary
There exists a use after free/double free in libwebp. An attacker can use the ApplyFiltersAndEncode() function and loop through to free best.bw and assign best = trial pointer. The second loop will then return 0 because of an Out of memory error in VP8 encoder, the pointer is still assigned to trial and the AddressSanitizer will attempt a double free.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Chromium libwebp Affected: 0.4.2 , < 1.3.1 (custom)
Affected: 0.4.2 , < 1.3.0-8-ga486d800 (custom)
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