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VMware Player: Third party libpng updated to version 1.2.44 (VMSA-2010-0014) (CVE-2010-2249)

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VMware Player: Third party libpng updated to version 1.2.44 (VMSA-2010-0014) (CVE-2010-2249)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/30/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2013
Modified
02/14/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-player-upgrade-2_5_5
  • vmware-player-upgrade-3_1_2

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