Medium severity · published Jun 30, 2010
CVE-2010-2249
Memory leak in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.44, and 1.4.x before 1.4.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a…
6.5
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Memory leak in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.44, and 1.4.x before 1.4.3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a PNG image containing malformed Physical Scale (aka sCAL) chunks.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IO
iOS · Apple
2.0 through 4.1 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
5.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
12; 13 · source: NVD
IT
Itunes · Apple
before 10.2 · source: NVD
LI
Libpng · Libpng
before 1.2.44; 1.4.0 before 1.4.3 · source: NVD
LE
Linux Enterprise Server · Suse
9; 10; 11; 11 · source: NVD
OP
Opensuse · Opensuse
11.1; 11.2 · source: NVD
PL
Player · Vmware
2.5 before 2.5.5; 3.1 before 3.1.2 · source: NVD
SA
Safari · Apple
before 5.0.4 · source: NVD
TV
Tvos · Apple
before 4.1.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
6.06; 8.04; 9.04; 9.10; 10.04 · source: NVD
WO
Workstation · Vmware
6.5.0 before 6.5.5; 7.1 before 7.1.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2249
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2249
libpng.git.sourceforge.net
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=90cfcecc09febb8d6c8c1d37ea7bb7cf0f4b00f3#patch20
Mailing List
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
Mailing List
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
Mailing List
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html
Mailing List
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.html
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