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Red Hat: RHSA-2010:0534-01 Important: libpng Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2010
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical has announced significant patches for libjpeg that tackle numerous vulnerabilities across multiple Ubuntu releases.
Updated libpng and libpng10 packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

The libpng packages contain a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files.
A memory corruption flaw was found in the way applications, using the libpng library and its progressive reading method, decoded certain PNG images. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PNG image that, when opened, could cause an application using libpng to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2010-1205)
A denial of service flaw was found in the way applications using the libpng library decoded PNG images that have certain, highly compressed ancillary chunks. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PNG image that could cause an application using libpng to consume excessive amounts of memory and CPU time, and possibly crash. (CVE-2010-0205)
A memory leak flaw was found in the way applications using the libpng library decoded PNG images that use the Physical Scale (sCAL) extension. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PNG image that could cause an application using libpng to exhaust all available memory and possibly crash or exit. (CVE-2010-2249)
A sensitive information disclosure flaw was found in the way applications using the libpng library processed 1-bit interlaced PNG images. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PNG image that could cause an application using libpng to disclose uninitialized memory. (CVE-2009-2042)
Users of libpng and libpng10 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications using libpng or libpng10 must be restarted for the update to take effect.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-2042 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0205 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1205 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2249 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: libpng-1.2.2-30.i386.rpm libpng-debuginfo-1.2.2-30.i386.rpm libpng-devel-1.2.2-30.i386.rpm libpng10-1.0.13-21.i386.rpm libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.13-21.i386.rpm libpng10-devel-1.0.13-21.i386.rpm
ia64: libpng-1.2.2-30.i386.rpm libpng-1.2.2-30.ia64.rpm libpng-debuginfo-1.2.2-30.i386.rpm libpng-debuginfo-1.2.2-30.ia64.rpm libpng-devel-1.2.2-30.ia64.rpm libpng10-1.0.13-21.i386.rpm libpng10-1.0.13-21.ia64.rpm libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.13-21.i386.rpm libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.13-21.ia64.rpm libpng10-devel-1.0.13-21.ia64.rpm
ppc: libpng-1.2.2-30.ppc.rpm libpng-1.2.2-30.ppc64.rpm libpng-debuginfo-1.2.2-30.ppc.rpm libpng-debuginfo-1.2.2-30.ppc64.rpm libpng-devel-1.2.2-30.ppc.rpm libpng10-1.0.13-21.ppc.rpm libpng10-1.0.13-21.ppc64.rpm libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.13-21.ppc.rpm libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.13-21.ppc64.rpm libpng10-devel-1.0.13-21.ppc.rpm
s390: libpng-1.2.2-30.s390.rpm libpng-debuginfo-1.2.2-30.s390.rpm libpng-devel-1.2.2-30.s390.rpm libpng10-1.0.13-21.s390.rpm libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.13-21.s390.rpm libpng10-devel-1.0.13-21.s390.rpm
s390x: libpng-1.2.2-30.s390.rpm libpng-1.2.2-30.s390x.rpm libpng-debuginfo-1.2.2-30.s390.rpm libpng-debuginfo-1.2.2-30.s390x.rpm libpng-devel-1.2.2-30.s390x.rpm libpng10-1.0.13-21.s390.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2010:0534-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2010-07-14

Topic

Updated libpng and libpng10 packages that fix multiple security issues arenow available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) basescores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eachvulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

504782 - CVE-2009-2042 libpng: Interlaced Images Information Disclosure Vulnerability

566234 - CVE-2010-0205 libpng: excessive memory consumption due to highly compressed huge ancillary chunk

608238 - CVE-2010-1205 libpng: out-of-bounds memory write

608644 - CVE-2010-2249 libpng: Memory leak when processing Physical Scale (sCAL) images

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