[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: libpng-1.2.43-1.fc11
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-4616
2010-03-16 23:01:40
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Name : libpng
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 1.2.43
Release : 1.fc11
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.
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Update Information:
Update to libpng 1.2.43, includes fix for CVE-2010-0205
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Mar 15 2010 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 2:1.2.43-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.43, includes fix for CVE-2010-0205
Related: #566234
* Sat Jun 13 2009 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 2:1.2.37-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.37, to fix CVE-2009-2042
Related: #504782
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #566234 - CVE-2010-0205 libpng: excessive memory consumption due to highly
compressed huge ancillary chunk
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566234
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libpng' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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