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Fedora 21: Critical Update For Mingw-Libpng Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2015
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An important patch for mingw-libjpeg has been issued to fix potential memory leakage vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 18.04 related to CVE-2017-13156 mitigated.
libpng 1.6.19 release, fixing CVE-2015-8126

Summary

MinGW Windows Libpng library.

Update Information:

libpng 1.6.19 release, fixing CVE-2015-8126

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security advisory buffer overflow Fedora critical update mingw-libpng

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1281756 - CVE-2015-8126 libpng: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in png_get_PLTE/png_set_PLTE functions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281756

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mingw-libpng' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mingw-libpng
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.6.19
Release: 1.fc21
URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Summary: MinGW Windows Libpng library

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora critical update mingw-libpng

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