vulnerability

Microsoft Edge Chromium: CVE-2023-1999 Use after free in libwebp

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 20, 2023
Added
Oct 2, 2023
Modified
Feb 20, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

microsoft-edge-upgrade-latest
Title
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