SOL9988 - libpng vulnerability CVE-2009-0040

Description

The PNG reference library (libpng), as used in pngcrush and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by way of a crafted PNG file.

Information about this advisory is available at the following location:

<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0040&gt;

Note: This link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is possible that the information may be removed without our knowledge.

F5 Product Development tracked this issue as CR117746 and it was fixed in BIG-IP 10.0.1. For information about upgrading, refer to the BIG-IP LTM, GTM, Link Controller, ASM, PSM, WebAccelerator, or WOM release notes.

Additionally, this issue was fixed in BIGIP-10.0.0-5514.0-HF2 for BIG-IP 10.0.0. You may download this hotfix or later versions of the hotfix from the F5 Downloads site.

To view a list of the latest available hotfixes, refer to SOL9502: BIG-IP hotfix matrix.

For information about installing a version 10.x hotfix, refer to SOL10025: Managing BIG-IP product hotfixes (10.x).

For information about the F5 hotfix policy, refer to SOL4918: Overview of F5 critical issue hotfix policy.