[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: libpng10-1.0.66-1.fc23

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-3868cfa17b
2015-12-28 19:20:02.184175
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Name        : libpng10
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 1.0.66
Release     : 1.fc23
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:

An underflow read was found in png_check_keyword in libpng10. An attacker could
possibly use this flaw to cause an out-of-bounds read by tricking an
unsuspecting user into processing a specially crafted PNG image.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1291312 - CVE-2015-8540 libpng: underflow read in png_check_keyword()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291312
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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 https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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