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Gentoo: GLSA-200612-12 Normal: ImageMagick Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 17, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A security flaw in libpng could cause applications to fail when handling untrusted image files, posing a risk to Gentoo Linux users. It's advisable to perform updates immediately.
A vulnerability in libpng may allow a remote attacker to crash applications that handle untrusted images.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200611-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libpng: Denial of Service Date: November 17, 2006 Bugs: #154380 ID: 200611-09

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in libpng may allow a remote attacker to crash applications that handle untrusted images.
Background ========= libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG images.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/libpng < 1.2.13 >= 1.2.13
========== Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that a vulnerability exists in the sPLT chunk handling code of libpng, a large sPLT chunk may cause an appl...

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