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Fedora: 2006-005 Urgent: libpng Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CVE IDs: CVE-2006-4806, CVE-2006-4807, CVE-2006-4808, CVE-2006-4809 M. Joonas Pihlaja discovered that imlib2 did not sufficiently verify the validity of ARGB, JPG, LBM, PNG, PNM, TGA, and TIFF images. If a user were tricked into viewing or processing a specially crafted image with an application that uses imlib2, the flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Fedora Extras versions earlier then the versions mentioned above are vulnerable to this problem, upgrade to fix this vulnerability.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-EXTRAS-2006-004 2006-11-09 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product: Fedora Extras [3 4 5 6 devel] Name: imlib2 Version: 1.2.1-2 [FE 3 4], 1.3.0-3 [FE 5 6 devel] Summary: Image loading, saving, rendering, and manipulation library Description: Imlib 2 is a library that does image file loading and saving as well as rendering, manipulation, arbitrary polygon support, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: CVE IDs: CVE-2006-4806, CVE-2006-4807, CVE-2006-4808, CVE-2006-4809 M. Joonas Pihlaja discovered that imlib2 did not sufficiently verify the validity of ARGB, JPG, LBM, PNG, PNM, TGA, and TIFF images. If a user were tricked into viewing or processing a specially crafted image with an application that uses imlib2, the flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Fedora Extras versions earlier then the versions mentioned above are vulnerable to this problem, upgrade to fix this vulnerability. ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announcemailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./ . The latest Fedora Extras update for imlib2 addresses serious security vulnerabilities in image processing, urging users to update promptly to avoid exploits.. Fedora Update, imlib2 Patch, Image Security Fix. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Nov 09, 2006 •Important Fedora