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Gentoo: GLSA-202110-05 Critical: libpng Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2005
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The Gentoo Linux GLSA 202301-45 discusses a security flaw related to netcat that could potentially permit unauthorized command execution.
The pnmtopng utility, part of the Netpbm tools, contains a vulnerability which can potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Netpbm: Buffer overflow in pnmtopng Date: October 20, 2005 Bugs: #109705 ID: 200510-18

Synopsis ======= The pnmtopng utility, part of the Netpbm tools, contains a vulnerability which can potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Netpbm is a package of 220 graphics programs and a programming library, including pnmtopng, a tool to convert PNM image files to the PNG format.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/netpbm < 10.29 >= 10.29
========== RedHat reported that pnmtopng is vulnerable to a buffer overf...

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