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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-02 Low Severity: Libjpeg Vulnerability Alert

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Gentoo Linux Security Notice GLSA 202310-05 regarding zlib. Update is advised to mitigate potential data leakage vulnerabilities.
A vulnerability has been discovered in libpng that allows for information disclosure.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200906-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: libpng: Information disclosure Date: June 27, 2009 Bugs: #272970 ID: 200906-01

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in libpng that allows for information disclosure.
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 < 1.2.37 >= 1.2.37
========== Jeff Phillips discovered that libpng does not properly parse 1-bit interlaced images with width values that are not divisible by 8, which causes libpng to include uninitialized ...

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