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An arbitrary amount of memory may be overwritten + in this case, with arbitrary (attacker-controlled) data. + This vulnerability has been assigned ID CVE-2011-2690. + +* libpng 1.2.20 and later crashes in png_default_error() due to internal + use of a NULL pointer instead of the empty string (""). This + vulnerability + has been assigned ID CVE-2011-2691. + +* Many (most?) versions of libpng read uninitialized memory when + handling + empty sCAL chunks, and they handle malformed sCAL chunks (those + lacking + a delimiting NULL between the internal strings) incorrectly. + This vulnerability has been assigned ID CVE-2011-2692. + +The updated packages have been updated to latest stable version to +correct these issues, plus other bug fixes. +________________________________________________________________________ + +Updated packages: (or maybe only src package name + versions, to keep + it shorter for e.g. tb/firefox updates?) + +Mageia 1, i586: + libpng3-1.2.46-1.mga1.i586.rpm + libpng-devel-1.2.46-1.mga1.i586.rpm + libpng-source-1.2.46-1.mga1.i586.rpm + libpng-static-devel-1.2.46-1.mga1.i586.rpm + +Mageia 1, x86_64: + lib64png3-1.2.46-1.mga1.x86_64.rpm + lib64png-devel-1.2.46-1.mga1.x86_64.rpm + lib64png-static-devel-1.2.46-1.mga1.x86_64.rpm + libpng-source-1.2.46-1.mga1.x86_64.rpm + +-- +mageia-updates mailing list. +To unsubscribe, blablabla. + + +-- +Anssi Hannula +</PRE> + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="004082.html">[Mageia-sysadm] possibility to add a package in basesystem-minimal? 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