Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201701-2

Severity: Low
Date : 2017-01-01
CVE-ID : CVE-2016-10087
Package : libpng
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-119

Summary

The package libpng before version 1.6.27-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.6.27-1.

pacman -Syu “libpng>=1.6.27-1”

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.6.27.

Workaround

None.

Description

A NULL-pointer dereference issue has been found in png_set_text_2() in
libpng <= 1.6.26 and >= 0.71. To be vulnerable, an application has to
load a text chunk into the png structure, then delete all text, then
add another text chunk to the same png structure.

Impact

A remote attacker is able to crash the application under certain
circumstances.

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/782
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2016-10087