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OptiPNG Palette Reduction Use-After-Free Vulnerability


Secunia ID

SA50654

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-4432

Release Date

17 Sep 2012

Last Change

22 Oct 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

OptiPNG 0.x

Where

From remote

Impact
System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in OptiPNG, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a use-after-free error related to the palette reduction functionality. No further information is currently available.

Success exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.7.4.

Solution

Update to version 0.7.4.

Reported by

Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory

http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=151404
http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=151404