VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-2249

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.63%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2010-06-30
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Primary references