| Revision Date: | 2004-08-04 | Version: | 502 |
| Title: | RHSA-2004:402: libpng security update (Critical) |
| Description: | The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files.
During a source code audit, Chris Evans discovered several buffer overflows in libpng. An attacker could create a carefully crafted PNG file in such a way that it would cause an application linked with libpng to execute arbitrary code when the file was opened by a victim. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0597 to these issues.
In addition, this audit discovered a potential NULL pointer dereference in libpng (CAN-2004-0598) and several integer overflow issues (CAN-2004-0599). An attacker could create a carefully crafted PNG file in such a way that it would cause an application linked with libpng to crash when the file was opened by the victim.
Red Hat would like to thank Chris Evans for discovering these issues.
For users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 these patches also include a more complete fix for the out of bounds memory access flaw (CAN-2002-1363).
All users are advised to update to the updated libpng packages which contain backported security patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2002-1363
CVE-2004-0597
CVE-2004-0598
CVE-2004-0599
RHSA-2004:402-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
| Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is installed AND Package Information
libpng10-devel is earlier than 0:1.0.13-15
AND libpng10-devel is signed with Red Hat master key
OR
libpng10 is earlier than 0:1.0.13-15
AND libpng10 is signed with Red Hat master key
OR
libpng is earlier than 2:1.2.2-25
AND libpng is signed with Red Hat master key
OR
libpng-devel is earlier than 2:1.2.2-25
AND libpng-devel is signed with Red Hat master key
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