[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: libpng-1.2.46-1.fc14

The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Network Graphics image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm. Libpng...

Debian DSA-2287-1 : libpng - several vulnerabilities

The PNG library libpng has been affected by several vulnerabilities. The most critical one is the identified as CVE-2011-2690. Using this vulnerability, an attacker is able to overwrite memory with an arbitrary amount of data controlled by her via a crafted PNG image. The other vulnerabilities ar...

libpng: regression of CVE-2004-0421 in 1.2.23+

The pngformatbuffer function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted PNG image that triggers an out-of-bounds read during the copying of...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libpng security update

Updated libpng packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libpng security update

Updated libpng packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libpng security update

Updated libpng and libpng10 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

libpng: Invalid read when handling empty sCAL chunks

The pnghandlesCAL function in pngrutil.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 does not properly handle invalid sCAL chunks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly have...

Fedora Update for libpng10 FEDORA-2011-8844

Check for the Version of libpng10 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libpng10 FEDORA-2011-8844 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

USN-1175-1: libpng vulnerabilities

Frank Busse discovered that libpng did not properly handle certain malformed PNG images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PNG file, an attacker could cause libpng to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and...

libpng library multiple security vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities on PNG parsing...

Fedora 14 : libpng10-1.0.55-1.fc14 (2011-8867)

This update fixes a 1-byte uninitialized memory reference in pngformatbuffer. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bounds read when creating the error message. This is CVE-2011-2501. Also fixed in this...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libpng10-1.0.55-1.fc15

The libpng10 package contains an old version of libpng, a library of functi ons for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Network Graphics image format files. This package is needed if you want to run binaries that were linked dynamic ally with libpng 1.0.x...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libpng-1.2.46-1.fc15

The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Network Graphics image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm. Libpng...

AZL-40745 CVE-2011-2501 affecting package syslinux for versions less than 6.04-11

The pngformatbuffer function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted PNG image that triggers an out-of-bounds read during the copying of...

AZL-41475 CVE-2011-2691 affecting package syslinux for versions less than 6.04-11

The pngerr function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 makes a function call using a NULL pointer argument instead of an empty-string argument, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash vi...

CVE-2011-2691

The pngerr function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 makes a function call using a NULL pointer argument instead of an empty-string argument, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash vi...

CVE-2011-2690

Buffer overflow in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, when used by an application that calls the pngrgbtogray function but not the pngsetexpand function, allows remote attackers to overwrite memory with an arbitrary amount of data, and...

CVE-2011-2691

The pngerr function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 makes a function call using a NULL pointer argument instead of an empty-string argument, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash vi...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, when used by an application that calls the pngrgbtogray function but not the pngsetexpand function, allows remote attackers to overwrite memory with an arbitrary amount of data, and...

Memory corruption

The pnghandlesCAL function in pngrutil.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 does not properly handle invalid sCAL chunks, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly have...