CVE-2010-2249
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5EPSS 2.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-401
- EPSS score
- 2.6% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2261)
- Published
- June 30, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2261 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / iphone os
- apple / itunes
- apple / safari
- apple / tvos
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- debian / debian linux
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- libpng / libpng
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise server
- vmware / player
- vmware / workstation
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 with Service Pack 2, ProPack 4 for Service Pack 2 and certification-sles-sgi-eal3 package - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0292-2005 - archived
- SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 with certification-sles-ibm-eal4 package - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0256-2005 - archived
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)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40336(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40472(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40547(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41574(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42314(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42317(Broken Link)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.613061(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435(Broken Link)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4457(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4554(Third Party Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4566(Broken Link)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2072(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html(Product, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:133(Broken Link)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41174(Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024723(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-960-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1612(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1637(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1755(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1837(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1846(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1877(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2491(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3045(Broken Link)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3046(Broken Link)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608644(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/59816(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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