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CentOS alert CESA-2011:1104 (libpng)

From:  Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@centos.org>
To:  centos-announce@centos.org
Subject:  [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1104 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 libpng Update
Date:  Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:00:53 +0000
Message-ID:  <20110922100053.GA19670@chakra.karan.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:1104 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1104.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: dddd09f51bd45bbf4fb3e49ee561dae5 libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_7.5.i386.rpm adb9130a49abd3a11cc04f46d4b9338b libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_7.5.x86_64.rpm 8f37c74df1bc5ef26a549bd94e1cc31e libpng-devel-1.2.10-7.1.el5_7.5.i386.rpm 3aba940dffe265e7595ae82c03f98ba7 libpng-devel-1.2.10-7.1.el5_7.5.x86_64.rpm Source: 28e04e05f41e1e2eda1320b70f915626 libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_7.5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos@irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce


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CentOS security update to libpng

Posted Sep 28, 2011 3:58 UTC (Wed) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

For the love of Pete. We've had tools to catch buffer overflows for decades; is a small slowdown on something as fast as PNG reading really worth a continuing stream of security holes?

CentOS security update to libpng

Posted Sep 28, 2011 11:10 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

More relevant I think is that libpng still has no regression test suite to catch things like this.

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