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Security Update for Libpng Addresses Moderate Crash Issue in 5.x, 4.x, 3.x

Calendar May 21, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate libpng image handling crash issue scientific linux
Moderate: libpng security update 
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:56 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for libpng on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: libpng security update
Issue date:	2007-05-17
CVE Names:	CVE-2006-5793 CVE-2007-2445

A flaw was found in the handling of malformed images in libpng. An
attacker could create a carefully crafted PNG image file in such a way
that it could cause an application linked with libpng to crash when the
file was manipulated. (CVE-2007-2445)

A flaw was found in the sPLT chunk handling code in libpng. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted PNG image file in such a way that it
could cause an application linked with libpng to crash when the file was
opened. (CVE-2006-5793)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
	libpng-1.2.2-27.src.rpm
	libpng10-1.0.13-17.src.rpm
 i386:
	libpng10-1.0.13-17.i386.rpm
	libpng10-devel-1.0.13-17.i386.rpm
	libpng-1.2.2-27.i386.rpm
	libpng-devel-1.2.2-27.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	libpng10-1.0.13-17.i386.rpm
	libpng10-1.0.13-17.x86_64.rpm
	libpng10-devel-1.0.13-17.x86_64.rpm
	libpng-1.2.2-27.i386.rpm
	libpng-1.2.2-27.x86_64.rpm
	libpng-devel-1.2.2-27.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
	libpng-1.2.7-3.el4.src.rpm
	libpng10-1.0.16-3.src.rpm
 i386:
	libpng10-1.0.16-3.i386.rpm
	libpng10-devel-1.0.16-3.i386.rpm
	libpng-1.2.7-3.el4.i386.rpm
	libpng-devel-1.2.7-3.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	libpng10-1.0.16-3.i386.rpm
	libpng10-1.0.16-3.x86_64.rpm
	libpng10-devel-1.0.16-3.x86_64.rpm
	libpng-1.2.7-3.el4.i386.rpm
	libpng-1.2.7-3.el4.x86_64.rpm
	libpng-devel-1.2.7-3.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
	libpng-1.2.10-7.0.2.src.rpm
 i386:
	libpng-1.2.10-7.0.2.i386.rpm
	libpng-devel-1.2.10-7.0.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	libpng-1.2.10-7.0.2.i386.rpm
	libpng-1.2.10-7.0.2.x86_64.rpm
	libpng-devel-1.2.10-7.0.2.i386.rpm
	libpng-devel-1.2.10-7.0.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson