CVE-2010-2249 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2249?

CVE-2010-2249 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 30 Jun 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2249?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Apple Itunes, Apple Safari, Apple Tvos, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2249?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-2249 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2249 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Iphone Os

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• CVE-2021-30762 Apple iOS WebKit Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4657 Apple iOS Webkit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-7286 Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Apple Iphone Os vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as AZL-40809, AZL-43960, AZL-44709, DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2249, GHSA-2r3r-854p-xjfr.