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Fedora 23: LIBPNG Security Fix CVE-2015-8126 Moderate Buffer Overflow

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Fedora 23 enhances libpng to resolve CVE-2015-8126, mitigating potential buffer overflow threats.
Security fix for CVE-2015-8126 (#1281757, #12812756)

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.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-8126 (#1281757, #12812756)

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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 libpng' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: libpng
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.6.17
Release: 3.fc23
URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Summary: A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files

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Topics Covered

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