Fedora: 2,1: libpng 1.2 Denial of service vulnerability
Summary
The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and
manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG
is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was
created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data
compression algorithm.
Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image
files.
The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and
manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG
is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was
created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data
compression algorithm.
Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image
files.
Update Information:
During an audit of Red Hat Linux updates, the Fedora Legacy team found a
security issue in libpng that had not been fixed in Fedora Core. An
attacker could carefully craft a PNG file in such a way that
it would cause an application linked to libpng to crash or potentially
execute arbitrary code when opened by a victim.
This update can be downloaded from:
7110a37d68c8c40e714a1ac98968bf8c SRPMS/libpng-1.2.5-5.src.rpm 459fcd366522dc38efb4a652d8def823 x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-5.x86_64.rpm 4d7c8e03855acd7b9becbe4346018696 x86_64/libpng-devel-1.2.5-5.x86_64.rpm 57c26ab46c584b6f0f988158d898c054 x86_64/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.5-5.x86_64.rpm 9d383cea2fa4aef94fa80531214707bd x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm f880999528679481d1c6ff76559a3049 x86_64/libpng-devel-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm 213aeb2882f3ebba9859367b46e64849 x86_64/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm9d383cea2fa4aef94fa80531214707bd i386/libpng-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm f880999528679481d1c6ff76559a3049 i386/libpng-devel-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm 213aeb...
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References
CORE 2: Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-175 2004-06-18 Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : libpng Version : 1.2.5 Release : 5 Summary : A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files. Description : The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm. Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image files.
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