[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: libpng10-1.0.53-1.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-2988
2010-02-26 11:46:29
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Name        : libpng10
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 1.0.53
Release     : 1.fc13
URL         : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Summary     : Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries
Description :
The libpng10 package contains an old version of libpng, a library of functions
for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format
files.

This package is needed if you want to run binaries that were linked dynamically
with libpng 1.0.x.

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Update Information:

This is the latest upstream maintenance release.    In addition to a number of
minor bugfixes, it mitigates the resource-consumption effects of highly
compressed ancillary chunks in hostile PNG files as described at
http://libpng.sourceforge.net/ADVISORY-1.4.1.html    This issue has been
assigned CVE-2010-0205 by CERT.
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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 libpng10' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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