CVE-2010-2249
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
Fedora Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Affected | — |
| 12 | Affected | — |
macOS Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 11.2 | Affected | — |
| 11.1 | Affected | — |
| 11 | Affected | — |
| 10 | Affected | — |
| 9 | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 10.04 | Affected | — |
| 9.10 | Affected | — |
| 9.04 | Affected | — |
| 8.04 | Affected | — |
| 6.06 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.0-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.0-1 |
| 5.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| libpng | libpng | {"endExcluding":"1.2.44"} | 1.2.44 |
| apple | itunes | {"endExcluding":"10.2"} | 10.2 |
| apple | safari | {"endExcluding":"5.0.4"} | 5.0.4 |
| vmware | player | {"startIncluding":"2.5","endExcluding":"2.5.5"} | 2.5.5 |
| vmware | workstation | {"startIncluding":"6.5.0","endExcluding":"6.5.5"} | 6.5.5 |
References
- 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.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
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044397.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40302
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40336
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40472
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40547
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41574
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42314
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42317
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.613061
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4457
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4554
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4566
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2072
- http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:133
CWEs
CWE-401
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.