Vulnerability in Apple Iphone OS
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 consumption and application crash) via a PNG image containing malformed Physical Scale (aka sCAL) chunks.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.026 (85.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 85.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Iphone OS
- Apple Itunes
- Apple Safari
- Apple tvOS
- Libpng
- VMware Player
- VMware Workstation
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 10.04, 9.04
- Debian Linux — versions 5.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 12, 13
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/41174 (Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1877 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3045 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 (Broken Link)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1837 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT4457 (Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2010-2249?
- CVE-2010-2249 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Iphone OS, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2010-06-30.
- How severe is CVE-2010-2249?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.