CVE-2010-2249

medium

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.

References

Advisories
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59816

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608644

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-960-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024723

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41174

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2072

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4554

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4457

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.613061

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044397.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=90cfcecc09febb8d6c8c1d37ea7bb7cf0f4b00f3#patch20

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-06-30

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H