CVE-2010-2249

medium VMware
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
1.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 18% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: June 30, 2010 (5797 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: VMware
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-401

Affected Products

libpng libpngapple itunesapple safariapple iphone osapple tvosfedoraproject fedoraopensuse opensusesuse linux enterprise servervmware playervmware workstation

References

🔗 libpng.git.sourceforge.net 🔗 lists.apple.com 🔗 lists.apple.com 🔗 lists.apple.com 🔗 lists.apple.com