CVE-2023-1999

Summary

CVECVE-2023-1999
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-06-20 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-17 09:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThere 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. 

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-415 | CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Webmproject Libwebp All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
webm/libwebp - Git at Google MISC chromium.googlesource.com
WebP: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-05) — Gentoo security MISC security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160571 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libwebp (ELSA-2023-2077)
  • 160573 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libwebp (ELSA-2023-2078)
  • 160575 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libwebp (ELSA-2023-2076)
  • 181796 Debian Security Update for libwebp (DSA 5408-1)
  • 181815 Debian Security Update for libwebp (DLA 3439-1)
  • 182674 Debian Security Update for firefox-esrlibwebpthunderbird (CVE-2023-1999)
  • 199341 Ubuntu Security Notification for libwebp Vulnerability (USN-6078-1)
  • 199531 Ubuntu Security Notification for libwebp Vulnerability (USN-6078-2)
  • 241398 Red Hat Update for libwebp (RHSA-2023:2075)
  • 241399 Red Hat Update for libwebp (RHSA-2023:2084)
  • 241400 Red Hat Update for libwebp (RHSA-2023:2076)
  • 241401 Red Hat Update for libwebp (RHSA-2023:2085)
  • 241402 Red Hat Update for libwebp (RHSA-2023:2077)
  • 241404 Red Hat Update for libwebp (RHSA-2023:2078)
  • 241621 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2023:1803)
  • 241638 Red Hat Update for firefox (RHSA-2023:1789)
  • 241644 Red Hat Update for libwebp (RHSA-2023:2072)
  • 241645 Red Hat Update for thunderbird (RHSA-2023:1805)
  • 241663 Red Hat Update for libwebp (RHSA-2023:2073)
  • 241676 Red Hat Update for firefox (RHSA-2023:1792)
  • 257237 CentOS Security Update for libwebp (CESA-2023:2077)
  • 355408 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for libwebp : ALAS2023-2023-185
  • 356220 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for firefox : ALASFIREFOX-2023-005
  • 356496 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for firefox : ALAS2FIREFOX-2023-005
  • 378511 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libwebp (ALINUX2-SA-2023:0022)
  • 378911 Microsoft Edge Based on Chromium Prior to 117.0.2045.47 Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • 503015 Alpine Linux Security Update for libwebp
  • 503016 Alpine Linux Security Update for libwebp
  • 503018 Alpine Linux Security Update for libwebp
  • 503115 Alpine Linux Security Update for libwebp
  • 503446 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 505889 Alpine Linux Security Update for libwebp
  • 506054 Alpine Linux Security Update for firefox-esr
  • 673213 EulerOS Security Update for libwebp (EulerOS-SA-2023-2385)
  • 673236 EulerOS Security Update for libwebp (EulerOS-SA-2023-2359)
  • 673281 EulerOS Security Update for libwebp (EulerOS-SA-2023-2588)
  • 673287 EulerOS Security Update for libwebp (EulerOS-SA-2023-2618)
  • 673329 EulerOS Security Update for libwebp (EulerOS-SA-2023-2653)
  • 673565 EulerOS Security Update for libwebp (EulerOS-SA-2023-2695)
  • 710735 Gentoo Linux Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202305-36)
  • 710739 Gentoo Linux Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202305-35)
  • 710750 Gentoo Linux WebP Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202309-05)
  • 754075 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for libwebp (SUSE-SU-2023:2467-1)
  • 754114 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for libwebp (SUSE-SU-2023:2552-1)
  • 907355 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for libwebp (27181-1)
  • 940997 AlmaLinux Security Update for libwebp (ALSA-2023:2076)
  • 941000 AlmaLinux Security Update for libwebp (ALSA-2023:2078)
  • 960925 Rocky Linux Security Update for libwebp (RLSA-2023:2078)
  • 960939 Rocky Linux Security Update for libwebp (RLSA-2023:2076)
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