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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-2249 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=90cfcecc09febb8d6c8c1d37ea7bb7cf0f4b00f3#patch20 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044397.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/40302 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/40336 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/40472 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/40547 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/41574 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42314 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/42317 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.613061 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4457 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4554 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4566 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2072 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Product  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:133 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41174 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024723 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-960-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1612 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1637 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1755 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1837 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1846 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1877 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2491 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3045 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3046 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608644 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59816 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-2249
NVD Published Date:
06/30/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.