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Fedora 25 Announces Critical Security Advisory for libpng 1.6.27

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Calendar Grey January 1, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security notice for Fedora concerning libpng 1.6.27 has been issued to tackle a possible vulnerability. Further information is provided here.
libpng 1.6.27 release, fixing a potential security issue

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:

libpng 1.6.27 release, fixing a potential security issue. For details, see

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora libpng image processing PNG format

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1409159 - libpng-1.6.27 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409159

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade libpng' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: libpng
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.6.27
Release: 1.fc25
URL: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Summary: A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora libpng image processing PNG format

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