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FKIE_CVE-2023-1999

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-06-20 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:29
Severity
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
cve-coordination@google.comhttps://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebpProduct
cve-coordination@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-05
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebpProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-05
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
webmproject libwebp *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T05:29:14.063",
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