Gentoo GLSA-200903-28 Normal: libpng Memory Corruption Risks
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March 15, 2009
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in libpng, which might result in the execution of arbitrary code
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-28
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: March 15, 2009
Bugs: #244808, #255231, #259578
ID: 200903-28
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities were found in libpng, which might result in
the execution of arbitrary code
Background
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libpng is the official PNG reference library used to read, write and
manipulate PNG images.
Affected packages
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1 media-libs/libpng < 1.2.35 >= 1.2.35
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Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libpng:
* A memory leak bug was reported in png_handle_tEXt(), a function
that is used while...
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