Vulnerability CVE-2023-45664


Published: 2023-10-21

Description:
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.

 References:
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-145_GHSL-2023-151_stb_image_h/
https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/5736b15f7ea0ffb08dd38af21067c314d6a3aae9/stb_image.h#L6993-L6995

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