[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: libpng10-1.0.53-1.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-3414
2010-03-03 01:37:06
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Name        : libpng10
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.0.53
Release     : 1.fc11
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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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb 25 2010 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.53-1
- update to 1.0.53 (minor changes, see ANNOUNCE for details)
- drop patch for #555485, included upstream
* Thu Jan  7 2010 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.52-2
- add upstream fix reinstating PNG_READ_16_TO_8_SUPPORTED and
  PNG_READ_GRAY_TO_RGB_SUPPORTED (not defined in 1.0.51 and 1.0.52),
  causing API/ABI regressions (#555485)
* Mon Jan  4 2010 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.52-1
- update to 1.0.52 (minor changes, see ANNOUNCE for details)
* Thu Dec  3 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.51-1
- update to 1.0.51 (see ANNOUNCE for details)
- update soname patch to apply to 1.0.51
* Fri Sep 11 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.50-1
- update to 1.0.50 (garbage removal patch upstreamed)
* Thu Sep 10 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.49-1
- update to 1.0.49 (minor bugfixes)
- patch out garbage in source files left over from edit gone wrong
* Thu Aug 13 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.48-1
- update to 1.0.48
  - avoid a possible NULL dereference in debug build, in png_set_text_2()
  - reject attempt to write iCCP chunk with negative embedded profile length
- rebase soname patch to remove fuzz
* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> 1.0.47-2
- rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* Fri Jul 17 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.47-1
- update to 1.0.47 (changes to unknown chunk handling and documentation)
* Thu Jun 18 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.46-1
- garbage removal patch upstreamed
* Thu Jun 18 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.45-2
- patch out garbage in devel config files left over from edit gone wrong
* Thu Jun  4 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.45-1
- update to 1.0.45 (mainly cosmetic code changes)
* Fri May  8 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.44-1
- update to 1.0.44 (fix possible UMR/memory leak issues, revise fflush() usage)
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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/.

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