CVE-2010-2249: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

June 30, 2010 (updated August 14, 2020)

Memory leak in pngrutil.c in libpng , 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

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2249

Code Behaviors & Features

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