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CVE-2009-0749

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2009-03-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Opensuse OpensuseSuse Linux EnterpriseOptipng Project Optipng

Weakness Type

CWE-416

References