Mageia alert MGASA-2015-0489 (libpng12)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2015-0489: Updated libpng12 packages fix security vulnerability 
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Mon, 28 Dec 2015 20:24:04 +0100
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MGASA-2015-0489 - Updated libpng12 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 28 Dec 2015
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0489.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2015-8540

Description:
There is a underflow read in png_check_keyword() in pngwutil.c in libpng 1.2.x
before 1.2.56 (CVE-2015-8540).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17332
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/11/1
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8540

SRPMS:
- 5/core/libpng12-1.2.56-1.mga5