CVE-2010-2249 describes a memory leak vulnerability in libpng versions prior to 1.2.44 and 1.4.3, affecting various products including Apple, Canonical, Debian, and VMware. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service through memory exhaustion and application crashes by supplying a malformed PNG image containing specific sCAL chunks. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but has a low attack complexity (AC:L) and can lead to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.2.44CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.4.0, < 1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 10.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:itunes:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 5.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.0, <= 4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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libpng: Memory leak when processing Physical Scale (sCAL) images
Jun 25, 2010Memory 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.
Jun 2, 2010