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Fedora alert FEDORA-2010-3414 (libpng10)

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To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: libpng10-1.0.53-1.fc11
Date:  Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:50:55 +0000
Message-ID:  <20100316005055.292BF1108C3@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-3414 2010-03-03 01:37:06 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libpng10 Product : Fedora 11 Version : 1.0.53 Release : 1.fc11 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is the latest upstream maintenance release. In addition to a number of minor bugfixes, it mitigates the resource-consumption effects of highly compressed ancillary chunks in hostile PNG files as described at http://libpng.sourceforge.net/ADVISORY-1.4.1.html This issue has been assigned CVE-2010-0205 by CERT. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Feb 25 2010 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.53-1 - update to 1.0.53 (minor changes, see ANNOUNCE for details) - drop patch for #555485, included upstream * Thu Jan 7 2010 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.52-2 - add upstream fix reinstating PNG_READ_16_TO_8_SUPPORTED and PNG_READ_GRAY_TO_RGB_SUPPORTED (not defined in 1.0.51 and 1.0.52), causing API/ABI regressions (#555485) * Mon Jan 4 2010 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.52-1 - update to 1.0.52 (minor changes, see ANNOUNCE for details) * Thu Dec 3 2009 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.51-1 - update to 1.0.51 (see ANNOUNCE for details) - update soname patch to apply to 1.0.51 * Fri Sep 11 2009 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.50-1 - update to 1.0.50 (garbage removal patch upstreamed) * Thu Sep 10 2009 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.49-1 - update to 1.0.49 (minor bugfixes) - patch out garbage in source files left over from edit gone wrong * Thu Aug 13 2009 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.48-1 - update to 1.0.48 - avoid a possible NULL dereference in debug build, in png_set_text_2() - reject attempt to write iCCP chunk with negative embedded profile length - rebase soname patch to remove fuzz * Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> 1.0.47-2 - rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jul 17 2009 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.47-1 - update to 1.0.47 (changes to unknown chunk handling and documentation) * Thu Jun 18 2009 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.46-1 - garbage removal patch upstreamed * Thu Jun 18 2009 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.45-2 - patch out garbage in devel config files left over from edit gone wrong * Thu Jun 4 2009 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.45-1 - update to 1.0.45 (mainly cosmetic code changes) * Fri May 8 2009 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.0.44-1 - update to 1.0.44 (fix possible UMR/memory leak issues, revise fflush() usage) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #566234 - CVE-2010-0205 libpng: excessive memory consumption due to highly compressed huge ancillary chunk https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566234 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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