Gentoo: GLSA-202305-12 Urgent: libxml2 Risk of Remote Code Execution
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April 15, 2008
A vulnerability in libpng may allow for execution of arbitrary code in certain applications that handle untrusted images.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200804-15
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: libpng: Execution of arbitrary code
Date: April 15, 2008
Bugs: #217047
ID: 200804-15
Synopsis
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A vulnerability in libpng may allow for execution of arbitrary code in
certain 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 < 1.2.26-r1 >= 1.2.26-r1
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Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered that libpng does
not handle zero-length unknown chunks in PNG files correctly, which
might lead to...
Resolution
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Availability
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