debian · CVE-2009-0749

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:01:25 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2009-0749 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (optipng), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GIFReadNextExtension function in lib/pngxtern/gif/gifread.c in OptiPNG 0.6.2 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted GIF image that causes the realloc function to return a new pointer, which triggers memory corruption when the old pointer is accessed.

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