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CVE-2010-2249

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…

Medium6.5EPSS 2.6%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
redhat

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2010-2249, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Medium6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
2.6% · top 14% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

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