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openSUSE: 2020:2227-1 Moderate: Pngcheck Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch for Fedora addresses a significant vulnerability concerning the libpng's heap overflow in certain conditions.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for pngcheck fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-27818: Fixed a global buffer overflow in check_chunk_name

function via crafted pngfile (boo#1179528).

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.1:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2227=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

pngcheck-2.3.0-bp151.4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27818.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179528

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2227-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 .

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