CVE-2010-2249
MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 30, 2010 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:20 PM UTC
12 products affected across 8 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraiPhone OS
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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v < 10.2
Affected range stops below 10.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 5.0.4
Affected range stops below 5.0.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 4.1.0
Affected range stops below 4.1.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%v < 1.2.441.4.0 ≤ v < 1.4.3
Affected range stops below 1.2.44, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.4.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.html
References (40)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044397.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.htmlCVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-401
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