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Severity: Normal
Title: libpng: Denial of Service
Date: November 17, 2006
Bugs: #154380
ID: 200611-09

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Synopsis
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A vulnerability in libpng may allow a remote attacker to crash
applications that handle untrusted images.

Background
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libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG
images.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/libpng < 1.2.13 >= 1.2.13

Description
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Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that a
vulnerability exists in the sPLT chunk handling code of libpng, a large
sPLT chunk may cause an application to attempt to read out of bounds.

Impact
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A remote attacker could craft an image that when processed or viewed by
an application using libpng causes the application to terminate
abnormally.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All libpng users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/libpng-1.2.13"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-5793
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5793

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-09.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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