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Fedora 10: FEDORA-2009-2131 Moderate: Libpng Arbitrary Free Fix

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest patch for mingw32-libpng addresses a critical vulnerability in Fedora 10 that could lead to unauthorized memory access, thereby improving overall security and system reliability.
Update to libpng 1.2.35, to fix CVE-2009-0040.

Summary

MinGW Windows Libpng library.

Update to libpng 1.2.35, to fix CVE-2009-0040.

[ 1 ] Bug #486355 - CVE-2009-0040 libpng arbitrary free() flaw

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486355

su -c 'yum update mingw32-libpng' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora security patch arbitrary free mingw32-libpng

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.2.35
Release: 1.fc10
URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Summary: MinGW Windows Libpng library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora security patch arbitrary free mingw32-libpng

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