CVE-2010-2249
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · CWE-401
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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 & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=90cfcecc09febb8d6c8c1d37ea7bb7cf0f4b00f3#patch20
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044397.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.htmlAdvisory