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CVE-2010-2249 json

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 con…

published 2010-06-30 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-2261

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • libpng libpng 1.2.44, 1.4.3
  • apple itunes 10.2
  • apple safari 5.0.4
  • vmware player 2.5.5, 3.1.2
  • vmware workstation 6.5.5, 7.1.2
  • apple tvos 4.1.0
  • tuxonice-userui Debian 12 1.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2249

  • libpng RHEL 3 2:1.2.2-30
  • libpng RHEL 4 2:1.2.7-3.el4_8.3
  • libpng RHEL 5 2:1.2.10-7.1.el5_5.3
  • libpng10 RHEL 3 1.0.13-21
  • libpng10 RHEL 4 1.0.16-3.el4_8.4

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0534

  • syslinux Azure Linux 3.0 libpng-1.2.44

azure linux advisories AZL-40809

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-2249 updated cvss 4.3

libpng: Memory leak when processing Physical Scale (sCAL) images

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 libpng 1.2.2-30, libpng10 1.0.13-21 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) libpng 1.2.10-7.1.el5_5.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 libpng 1.2.2-30, libpng10 1.0.13-21 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 libpng 1.2.7-3.el4_8.3, libpng10 1.0.16-3.el4_8.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) libpng 1.2.10-7.1.el5_5.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 libpng 1.2.7-3.el4_8.3, libpng10 1.0.16-3.el4_8.4
    +5 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) libpng 1.2.10-7.1.el5_5.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 libpng 1.2.2-30, libpng10 1.0.13-21 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 libpng 1.2.7-3.el4_8.3, libpng10 1.0.16-3.el4_8.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 libpng 1.2.2-30, libpng10 1.0.13-21 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 libpng 1.2.7-3.el4_8.3, libpng10 1.0.16-3.el4_8.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0534
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libpng
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
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References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.