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Gentoo GLSA-200903-28 Normal: libpng Memory Corruption Risks

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2009
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Numerous security flaws in libpng may permit unauthorized code execution. Update to mitigate potential threats in Gentoo.
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in libpng, which might result in the execution of arbitrary code

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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 ======= Multiple vulnerabilities were found in libpng, which might result in the execution of arbitrary code
Background ========= libpng is the official PNG reference library used to read, write and manipulate PNG images.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/libpng < 1.2.35 >= 1.2.35
========== 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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