CVE-2010-2249
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.62% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2010-06-30 18:00Z16 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 02:25Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2010-06-09
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4157163c555314677557cb45bb6c14d8371b08770356d8289e936c8c84518cc9
05 Affected products
06 References
- libpng.git.sourceforge.nethttp://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=90cfcecc09febb8d6c8c1d37ea7bb7cf0f4b00f3#patch20
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2010:133http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:133
- www.vmware.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html
- www.securityfocus.com41174http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41174
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1877http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1877
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-3045http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3045
- www.securitytracker.com1024723http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024723
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1837http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1837
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4457
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1755http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1755
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-3046http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3046
- secunia.com40472http://secunia.com/advisories/40472
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4566
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608644
- secunia.com40302http://secunia.com/advisories/40302
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- secunia.com40336http://secunia.com/advisories/40336
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comlibpng-scal-dos(59816)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59816
- secunia.com41574http://secunia.com/advisories/41574
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-960-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-960-1
- www.libpng.orghttp://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2011-03-02-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html
- secunia.com42317http://secunia.com/advisories/42317
- lists.vmware.com[security-announce] 20100923 VMSA-2010-0014 VMware Workstation, Player, and ACE address several security issueshttp://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2010-10823http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-2072http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2072
- secunia.com40547http://secunia.com/advisories/40547
- secunia.com42314http://secunia.com/advisories/42314
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1637http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1637
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4554
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2010:017http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2011-03-09-2http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html
- slackware.comSSA:2010-180-01http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.613061
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2010-10833http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044397.html
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-2491http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2491
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1846http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1846
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2010-11-22-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2010-1612http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1612
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- tuxonice-userui Fixed in 1.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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