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Gentoo: GLSA-202309-02 Normal: Possible Flaw in OptiPNG Buffer Management

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Calendar Grey December 2, 2008
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Gentoo alert regarding a potential buffer overflow vulnerability in OptiPNG, advising users to upgrade to avert execution complications.
A vulnerability in OptiPNG might result in user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: OptiPNG: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: December 02, 2008 Bugs: #246522 ID: 200812-01

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in OptiPNG might result in user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/optipng < 0.6.2 >= 0.6.2
========== A buffer overflow in the BMP reader in OptiPNG has been reported.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could entice a user to process a spec...

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