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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2015-39499d9af8 Moderate: libpng Buffer Overflow Fix

Latest upstream release, includes fixes for security vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8540. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-39499d9af8 2016-01-02 19:00:53.591455 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libpng12 Product : Fedora 23 Version : 1.2.56 Release : 1.fc23 URL : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ Summary : Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries Description : The libpng12 package provides libpng 1.2, an older version of the libpng library for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. This version should be used only if you are unable to use the current version of libpng. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Latest upstream release, includes fixes for security vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8540 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1276416 - CVE-2015-7981 libpng: Out-of-bounds read in png_convert_to_rfc1123 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276416 [ 2 ] Bug #1281756 - CVE-2015-8126 CVE-2015-8472 libpng: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in png_get_PLTE/png_set_PLTE functions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281756 [ 3 ] Bug #1291312 - CVE-2015-8540 libpng: underflow read in png_check_keyword() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291312 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libpng12' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be foundat https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-announce.lists.fedoraproject.org/ . This patch resolves security flaws in libjpeg for Fedora 24, improving overall image processing safety.. libpng12 update, Fedora security, image processing vulnerabilities. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 02, 2016 Fedora