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Memory leak in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.44, and 1...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 10, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 30, 2010
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Last updated Feb 10, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2010-2249

GHSA ID

GHSA-2r3r-854p-xjfr

Source code

No known source code

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