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CVE-2010-2249

First published: Fri Jun 25 2010(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
redhat/libpng<2:1.2.7-3.el4_8.3
2:1.2.7-3.el4_8.3
redhat/libpng10<0:1.0.16-3.el4_8.4
0:1.0.16-3.el4_8.4
redhat/libpng<2:1.2.10-7.1.el5_5.3
2:1.2.10-7.1.el5_5.3
libpng<1.2.44
libpng>=1.4.0<1.4.3
Apple iTunes<10.2
Apple Safari<5.0.4
Apple iPhone OS>=2.0<=4.1
Apple tvOS<4.1.0
Fedoraproject Fedora=12
Fedoraproject Fedora=13
openSUSE openSUSE=11.1
openSUSE openSUSE=11.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server=9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server=10-sp3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server=11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server=11-sp1
VMware Player>=2.5<2.5.5
VMware Player>=3.1<3.1.2
VMware Workstation>=6.5.0<6.5.5
VMware Workstation>=7.1<7.1.2
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=6.06
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=8.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=9.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=9.10
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=10.04
Debian Debian Linux=5.0

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