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Gentoo: GLSA 200903-12 Normal: User-Assisted Code Execution via OptiPNG

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
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A vulnerability in OptiPNG might result in user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: OptiPNG: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: March 09, 2009 Bugs: #260265 ID: 200903-12

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-r1 >= 0.6.2-r1
========== Roy Tam reported a use-after-free vulnerability in the GIFReadNextExtension() function in lib/pngxtern/gif/gifread.c leading to a memory ...

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