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Fedora 22 mingw-libpng Update: Critical Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest mingw-libpng version 1.6.21 addresses significant buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Fedora 22. For full installation details and patch notes, check the official documentation
Update to 1.6.21 which fixes various CVE's

Summary

MinGW Windows Libpng library.

Update Information:

Update to 1.6.21 which fixes various CVE's

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security advisory fedora buffer overflow software update mingw-libpng

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1281760 - CVE-2015-8126 mingw-libpng: libpng: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in png_get_PLTE/png_set_PLTE functions [epel-7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281760

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 22
Version: 1.6.21
Release: 1.fc22
URL: /
Summary: MinGW Windows Libpng library

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