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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200405-06
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: libpng denial of service vulnerability
Date: May 14, 2004
Bugs: #49887
ID: 200405-06
Synopsis
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A bug in the libpng library can be abused to crash programs making use
of that library to decode PNG images.
Background
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libpng is a standard library used to process PNG (Portable Network
Graphics) images.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/libpng <= 1.2.5-r4 >= 1.2.5-r5
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libpng provides two functions (png_chunk_error and png_chunk_warning)
for default error and warning messages handling. These functions do ...Read the Full Advisory
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