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openSUSE 15-SP3: 2022:10142-1 Moderate: pngcheck Crash Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An update for pngcheck resolves a crash issue and several security vulnerabilities in openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for pngcheck fixes the following issues:

version update to 3.0.3 [boo#1202662]

* fixed a crash bug (and probable vulnerability) in large (MNG) LOOP chunks

* fixed a divide-by-zero crash bug (and probable vulnerability) in

interlaced images with extra compressed data beyond the nominal end of

the image data (found by "chiba of topsec alpha lab")

version update to 3.0.0

* tweaked color definitions slightly to work better on terminals with

white/light backgrounds

* fixed DHDR (pre-MNG-1.0) bug identified by Winfried

* added eXIf support (GRR: added check for II/MM/unknown format)

* converted static const help/usage-related strings to macros so

-Werror=format-security doesn't trigger (Ben Beasley)

* added (help2man-generated) man pages for all three utils added

top-level LICENSE file; fixed various compiler warnings

* fixed buffer-overflow vulnerability discovered by "giantbranch of

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update buffer overflow openSUSE pngcheck crash bug

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-SP3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2022-10142=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

pngcheck-3.0.3-bp153.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35511.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202662

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:10142-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 .

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update buffer overflow openSUSE pngcheck crash bug

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