Fedora alert FEDORA-2004-175 (libpng)

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Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
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fedora-announce-list@redhat.com
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[SECURITY] Fedora Core 2 Update: libpng-1.2.5-5
Date:
    	     
 
Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:28:03 -0400

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-175
2004-06-18
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Product     : Fedora Core 2
Name        : libpng
Version     : 1.2.5
Release     : 5
Summary     : A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format
files.
Description :
The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and
manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files.  PNG
is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format.  PNG was
created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data
compression algorithm.
 
Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image
files.
 
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Update Information:
 
During an audit of Red Hat Linux updates, the Fedora Legacy team found a
security issue in libpng that had not been fixed in Fedora Core. An
attacker could carefully craft a PNG file in such a way that
it would cause an application linked to libpng to crash or potentially
execute arbitrary code when opened by a victim.
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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/
 
7110a37d68c8c40e714a1ac98968bf8c  SRPMS/libpng-1.2.5-5.src.rpm
459fcd366522dc38efb4a652d8def823  x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-5.x86_64.rpm
4d7c8e03855acd7b9becbe4346018696  x86_64/libpng-devel-1.2.5-5.x86_64.rpm
57c26ab46c584b6f0f988158d898c054 
x86_64/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.5-5.x86_64.rpm
9d383cea2fa4aef94fa80531214707bd  x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm
f880999528679481d1c6ff76559a3049  x86_64/libpng-devel-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm
213aeb2882f3ebba9859367b46e64849 
x86_64/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm9d383cea2fa4aef94fa80531214707bd  i386/libpng-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm
f880999528679481d1c6ff76559a3049  i386/libpng-devel-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm
213aeb2882f3ebba9859367b46e64849 
i386/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm
 
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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