Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-40809.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-40809
Upstream
Published
2010-06-30T18:30:01Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:14:14.215561Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2010-2249 affecting package syslinux for versions less than libpng-1.2.44
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / syslinux

Package

Name
syslinux
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/syslinux

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
libpng-1.2.44

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-40809.json"