CVE-2010-2249medium
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
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608644
http://secunia.com/advisories/40302
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1612
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41174
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-960-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1755
http://secunia.com/advisories/40472
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1877
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2072
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044397.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:133
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1837
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1846
http://secunia.com/advisories/40547
http://secunia.com/advisories/41574
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2491
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3046
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4457
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3045
http://secunia.com/advisories/42314
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024723
http://secunia.com/advisories/42317
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4554
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4566
http://secunia.com/advisories/40336
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1637
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.613061
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2010-06-30
Updated: 2023-02-13
Type: CWE-401
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 4.3
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Impact Score: 2.9
Exploitability Score: 8.6
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 2.8
Severity: MEDIUM