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optipng: use after free

Package(s):optipng CVE #(s):
Created:October 31, 2012 Updated:October 31, 2012
Description: From the optipng changelog:

Version 0.7.3 fixed a use-after-free vulnerability in the palette reduction code. This vulnerability was accidentally introduced in version 0.7.

Version 0.7.4 fixed the previous fix, which failed to fix the option -fix. (Thanks to Gynvael Coldwind and Mateusz Jurczyk for the report.)

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-16680 2012-10-31
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