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vmwareVMwareVMSA-2009-0010
HistoryAug 20, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

VMware Hosted products update libpng and Apache HTTP Server

2009-08-2000:00:00
www.vmware.com
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0.96 High

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99.3%

a. Third Party Library libpng Updated to 1.2.35

Several flaws were discovered in the way third party library libpng
handled uninitialized pointers. An attacker could create a PNG image
file in such a way, that when loaded by an application linked to
libpng, it could cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary
code at the privilege level of the user that runs the application.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2009-0040 to this issue.
The following table lists what action remediates the vulnerability
(column 4) if a solution is available.