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Slackware alert SSA:2007-136-01 (libpng)

From:  Slackware Security Team <security@slackware.com>
To:  slackware-security@slackware.com
Subject:  [slackware-security] libpng (SSA:2007-136-01)
Date:  Wed, 16 May 2007 16:37:08 -0700 (PDT)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] libpng (SSA:2007-136-01) New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2445 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/libpng-1.2.18-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz: Upgraded to libpng-1.2.18. A grayscale PNG image with a malformed (bad CRC) tRNS chunk will crash some libpng applications. This vulnerability has been assigned the identifiers CVE-2007-2445 and CERT VU#684664. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2445 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 8.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patch... Updated package for Slackware 9.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patch... Updated package for Slackware 9.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patch... Updated package for Slackware 10.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/patc... Updated package for Slackware 10.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.1/patc... Updated package for Slackware 10.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patc... Updated package for Slackware 11.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patc... Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/s... MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 8.1 package: c7eb1c4fdb9770a6cdf74f254f81fc27 libpng-1.2.18-i386-1_slack8.1.tgz Slackware 9.0 package: 8108fa520ece9138607731a74dfc141e libpng-1.2.18-i386-1_slack9.0.tgz Slackware 9.1 package: ac40a7b0b793dbf186fa7765f3ab7f49 libpng-1.2.18-i486-1_slack9.1.tgz Slackware 10.0 package: c83777019c539e619a8f08a3fe4ca145 libpng-1.2.18-i486-1_slack10.0.tgz Slackware 10.1 package: 3f9f1ba6c975ea16b8921482fba71c74 libpng-1.2.18-i486-1_slack10.1.tgz Slackware 10.2 package: 3a7f07dbaef1058987718fc5bc2beed0 libpng-1.2.18-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz Slackware 11.0 package: 0dd59c370e78ef621ce810e55a012596 libpng-1.2.18-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz Slackware -current package: ea3063b5c3ae38d48aff4631d0275cba libpng-1.2.18-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg libpng-1.2.18-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security@slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To leave the slackware-security mailing list: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of | | the email message: | | | | unsubscribe slackware-security | | | | You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to | | complete the process. Please do not reply to this email address. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGS3hsakRjwEAQIjMRAjMRAJ4mk4mcI7cAeR+4vckUXqY1psYNBwCfUaq8 ocoKO8GeiLtc2gNncAfp74o= =/Q33 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


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