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CVE-2023-43281

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-10-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Double Free vulnerability in Nothings Stb Image.h v.2.28 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file to the stbi_load_gif_main function.

Affected products

• nothings stb: 2.28

References

• https://gist.github.com/peccc/d8761f6ac45ad55cbd194dd7e6fdfdac
• https://github.com/peccc/double-stb
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NMXKOKPP4BKTNUTF5KSRDQAWOUILQZNO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QVABVF4GEM6BYD5L4L64RCRSXUHY6LGN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UVQ7ONFH5GWLMXYEAJG32A3EUKUCEVCR/
• https://gist.github.com/peccc/d8761f6ac45ad55cbd194dd7e6fdfdac
• https://github.com/peccc/double-stb
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NMXKOKPP4BKTNUTF5KSRDQAWOUILQZNO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QVABVF4GEM6BYD5L4L64RCRSXUHY6LGN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UVQ7ONFH5GWLMXYEAJG32A3EUKUCEVCR/

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