[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libpng10-1.0.59-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5079
2012-03-31 02:16:57
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Name        : libpng10
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.0.59
Release     : 1.fc15
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 update includes a fix for a potential memory corruption issue (CVE-2011-3048).
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar 29 2012 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.59-1
- update to 1.0.59
  - revised png_set_text_2() to avoid potential memory corruption
    (CVE-2011-3048)
  - prevent PNG_EXPAND+PNG_SHIFT doing the shift twice
* Fri Mar  9 2012 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.58-1
- update to 1.0.58
  - fix bug with png_handle_hIST with odd chunk length
  - fix incorrect type (int copy should be png_size_t copy) in png_inflate()
    (CVE-2011-3045)
  - fix off-by-one bug in png_handle_sCAL() when using fixed point arithmetic,
    causing out-of-bounds read in png_set_sCAL() because of failure to copy
    the string terminators
  - remove the png_free() of unused png_ptr->current_text from pngread.c
  - remove all of the assembler code from pnggccrd.c and just "return 2;"
* Sun Feb 19 2012 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.57-1
- update to 1.0.57 (fixed CVE-2011-3026 buffer overrun bug)
* Thu Jan  5 2012 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.56-2
- rebuilt for gcc 4.7
* Sat Jul  9 2011 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.56-1
- update to 1.0.56
  - fix regression in Makefile.am/Makefile.in
  - fix "make distcheck"
- drop upstreamed fix for libpng.sym build failure
* Thu Jul  7 2011 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.55-1
- update to 1.0.55
  - fixed uninitialized memory read in png_format_buffer()
    (CVE-2011-2501, related to CVE-2004-0421)
  - pass "" instead of '\0' to png_default_error() in png_err() (CVE-2011-2691)
  - check for up->location !PNG_AFTER_IDAT when writing unknown chunks before
    IDAT
  - ported bugfix in pngrtran.c from 1.5.3: when expanding a paletted image,
    always expand to RGBA if transparency is present
  - check for integer overflow in png_set_rgb_to_gray() (CVE-2011-2690)
  - check for sCAL chunk too short (CVE-2011-2692)
- drop upstreamed patch for CVE-2011-2501
- add patch to fix build failure due to regression in libpng.sym creation
* Wed Jun 29 2011 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.54-3
- fix 1-byte uninitialized memory reference in png_format_buffer()
  (CVE-2011-2501, related to CVE-2004-0421)
- nobody else likes macros for commands
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #808139 - CVE-2011-3048 libpng: memory corruption flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808139
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libpng10' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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