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Fedora 22: libpng10 Security Update for CVE-8126 Critical Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The libjpeg62 revision resolves a partial solution for CVE-12345 on Fedora 23. Discover the installation steps.
The fix for CVE-8126 was incomplete in the previous 1.0.64 update.

Summary

The libpng10 package contains an old version of libpng, a library of functions

for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format

files.

This package is needed if you want to run binaries that were linked dynamically

with libpng 1.0.x.

Update Information:

The fix for CVE-8126 was incomplete in the previous 1.0.64 update.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow software update Fedora libpng code fix

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1281756 - CVE-2015-8126 CVE-2015-8472 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 libpng10' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: libpng10
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.0.65
Release: 1.fc22
URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Summary: Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow software update Fedora libpng code fix

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