Medium 6.5Published Jun 30, 2010

CVE-2010-2249Memory 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 m…

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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.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-401
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

libpng libpng libpng:libpng	before 1.2.44; from 1.4.0 before 1.4.3	NVD
apple itunes apple:itunes	before 10.2	NVD
apple safari apple:safari	before 5.0.4	NVD
apple iphone_os apple:iphone_os	from 2.0 through 4.1	NVD
apple tvos apple:tvos	before 4.1.0	NVD
fedoraproject fedora fedoraproject:fedora	12; 13	NVD
opensuse opensuse opensuse:opensuse	11.1; 11.2	NVD
suse linux_enterprise_server suse:linux_enterprise_server	9; 10; 11; 11	NVD
vmware player vmware:player	from 2.5 before 2.5.5; from 3.1 before 3.1.2	NVD
vmware workstation vmware:workstation	from 6.5.0 before 6.5.5; from 7.1 before 7.1.2	NVD
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References

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	mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html	mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html	mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html	mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044283.html	mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044397.html	mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html	mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html	mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/40302	broken-link
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