openSUSE 10 Security Update : libpng (libpng-2322)

The sPLT chunk handling in libpng was incorrect and a handcrafted PNG file could be use to cause an out-of-bounds read, effectively crashing the PNG viewer or webbrowser. CVE-2006-5793 Additionaly a 2 byte stackoverflow was fixed which we do not believe to be exploitable. It will cause an abort o...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libpng security update

Updated libpng packages that fix security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Netwo...

GLSA-200611-09 : libpng: Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200611-09 libpng: Denial of Service Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that a vulnerability exists in the sPLT chunk handling code of libpng, a large sPLT chunk may cause an application to attempt to...

CVE-2006-5793

The sPLT chunk handling code pngsetsPLT function in pngset.c in libpng 1.0.6 through 1.2.12 uses a sizeof operator on the wrong data type, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash via malformed sPLT chunks that trigger an out-of-bounds read...

libpng: Denial of service

Background libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG images. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that a vulnerability exists in the sPLT chunk handling code of libpng, a large sPLT chunk may cause an application to attempt to read...