CVE-2010-2249 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2010-2249

Memory leak in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.44, and 1.4.x...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

libpng, itunes, safari, iphone os, tvos, fedora, opensuse, linux enterprise server, player, workstation, ubuntu linux, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.4.0, 2.0, 12, 13, 11.1, 11.2, 9, 10, 11, 2.5, 3.1, 6.5.0, 7.1, 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 5.0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 30th, 2010
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.