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Gentoo: GLSA-200600-10 Moderate: libjpeg Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey May 14, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A medium severity flaw in Fedora's libjpeg library may result in application crashes when processing JPEG files, leading to potential service disruptions.
A bug in the libpng library can be abused to crash programs making use of that library to decode PNG images.

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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 ======= A bug in the libpng library can be abused to crash programs making use of that library to decode PNG images.
Background ========= libpng is a standard library used to process PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/libpng <= 1.2.5-r4 >= 1.2.5-r5
========== libpng provides two functions (png_chunk_error and png_chunk_warning) for default error and warning messages handling. These functions do ...

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