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An arbitrary amount of memory may be overwritten +</I>><i>  in this case, with arbitrary (attacker-controlled) data. +</I>><i>  This vulnerability has been assigned ID CVE-2011-2690. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> * libpng 1.2.20 and later crashes in png_default_error() due to internal +</I>><i>  use of a NULL pointer instead of the empty string (""). This +</I>><i>  vulnerability +</I>><i>  has been assigned ID CVE-2011-2691. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> * Many (most?) versions of libpng read uninitialized memory when +</I>><i>  handling +</I>><i>  empty sCAL chunks, and they handle malformed sCAL chunks (those +</I>><i>  lacking +</I>><i>  a delimiting NULL between the internal strings) incorrectly. +</I>><i>  This vulnerability has been assigned ID CVE-2011-2692. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The updated packages have been updated to latest stable version to +</I>><i> correct these issues, plus other bug fixes. +</I>><i> ________________________________________________________________________ +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Updated packages: (or maybe only src package name + versions, to keep +</I>><i>                   it shorter for e.g. tb/firefox updates?) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Mageia 1, i586: +</I>><i>   libpng3-1.2.46-1.mga1.i586.rpm +</I>><i>   libpng-devel-1.2.46-1.mga1.i586.rpm +</I>><i>   libpng-source-1.2.46-1.mga1.i586.rpm +</I>><i>   libpng-static-devel-1.2.46-1.mga1.i586.rpm +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Mageia 1, x86_64: +</I>><i>   lib64png3-1.2.46-1.mga1.x86_64.rpm +</I>><i>   lib64png-devel-1.2.46-1.mga1.x86_64.rpm +</I>><i>   lib64png-static-devel-1.2.46-1.mga1.x86_64.rpm +</I>><i>   libpng-source-1.2.46-1.mga1.x86_64.rpm +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> mageia-updates mailing list. +</I>><i> To unsubscribe, blablabla. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Anssi Hannula +</I> +For me this is the perfect format we should reach. +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="004086.html">[Mageia-sysadm] Improving the mageia-updates@ messages +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="004090.html">[Mageia-sysadm] Test of upgrading to Bugzilla 4 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#4091">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#4091">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#4091">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#4091">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">More information about the Mageia-sysadm +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |