-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-10557 2010-06-30 14:45:11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : libpng Product : Fedora 13 Version : 1.2.44 Release : 1.fc13 URL : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ Summary : A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files Description : 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 should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image files.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Update to libpng 1.2.44, includes fixes for CVE-2010-1205 and CVE-2010-2249 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Tue Jun 29 2010 Tom Lane tgl@redhat.com 2:1.2.44-1 - Update to libpng 1.2.44, includes fixes for CVE-2010-1205 and CVE-2010-2249 Resolves: #609161 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #608644 - CVE-2010-2249 libpng: Memory leak when processing Physical Scale (sCAL) images https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608644 [ 2 ] Bug #608238 - CVE-2010-1205 libpng: out-of-bounds memory write https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608238 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libpng' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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