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
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A vulnerability in libpng may allow a remote attacker to crash
applications that handle untrusted images.
Background
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libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG
images.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/libpng < 1.2.13 >= 1.2.13
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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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