CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-9969

Double Free

Published: May 23, 2019 | Modified: May 28, 2019

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

5.1 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9969
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html

In libwebp 0.5.1, there is a double free bug in libwebpmux.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Libwebp	Webmproject	0.5.1 (including)	0.5.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webp/issues/detail?id=322

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