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CVE-2010-0205

N/A
Published: March 3, 2010 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM UTC
7 products affected across 7 vendorsmacOSDebian LinuxFedora

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

Description

The png_decompress_chunk function in pngrutil.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.53, 1.2.x before 1.2.43, and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 does not properly handle compressed ancillary-chunk data that has a disproportionately large uncompressed representation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption, and application hang) via a crafted PNG file, as demonstrated by use of the deflate compression method on data composed of many occurrences of the same character, related to a "decompression bomb" attack.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

macOS· Apple
95%
v < 10.6.5
Affected range stops below 10.6.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%
6.068.048.109.049.10
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%
5.06.0
Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
111213
Libpng· Libpng
95%
1.0.0 ≤ v < 1.0.531.2.0 ≤ v < 1.2.431.4.0 ≤ v < 1.4.1
Affected range stops below 1.0.53, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.2.43, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.4.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
openSUSE· openSUSE
95%
11.011.111.2
Linux Enterprise Server· SUSE
95%
10 sp31111 sp19

References (35)

x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://libpng.sourceforge.net/ADVISORY-1.4.1.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://libpng.sourceforge.net/decompression_bombs.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037237.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037355.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037364.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037607.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400

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