Bug 1314438 (CVE-2016-3177) - CVE-2016-3177 giflib: Use-after-free in gifcolor utility
Summary: CVE-2016-3177 giflib: Use-after-free in gifcolor utility
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2016-3177
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1318264 1318265
Blocks: 1314440
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-03 15:37 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-08-31 01:26:57 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-03-03 15:37:11 UTC 
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in gifcolor.c were found in 5.1.2. Two possible consecutive calls to EGifCloseFile with the same first parameter (GifFile) could lead to two calls to free(GifFile) / free(Private->HashTable) / free(Private). In particular, the second call of free(GifFile) appears in egif_lib.c, where there is no check to know if 'ErrorCode!=NULL' for this free. Since Private is freed with the first call to EGifCloseFile, and used during the second call, resulting into use-after-free.
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-03-03 15:37:23 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Josselin Feist
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-03-16 11:44:51 UTC 
Upstream bug:

https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/83/
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-03-16 11:46:33 UTC 
Created giflib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1318264]
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2016-03-16 11:46:41 UTC 
Created mingw-giflib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1318265]
Comment 5 Adam Mariš 2016-03-16 16:01:42 UTC 
CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/657
Comment 6 Andrej Nemec 2016-03-17 10:12:54 UTC 
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/663
Comment 7 Stefan Cornelius 2016-04-21 08:44:44 UTC 
Patch:
https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/7287722a6278dd0ab483ab50c0ded6d1dd805a0c/
Comment 8 Stefan Cornelius 2016-04-21 08:55:46 UTC 
I believe that was introduced via https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/116179a7d4681dda9afcdd43b5fbfb391b44918b/

RHEL code base does not include this patch and should not be vulnerable.

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of giflib as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.
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