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Fedora 23 mingw-libpng 1.6.21 Critical: Buffer Overflow Patch

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 upgrade for mingw-libjpeg to release 1.5.5 fixes memory leak vulnerabilities and improves overall safety.
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 critical issue buffer overflow software update Fedora 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 23
Version: 1.6.21
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Summary: MinGW Windows Libpng library

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue buffer overflow software update Fedora mingw-libpng

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