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PLSA-2008-69.txt

Posted on 11 November 2008
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-69 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2008-11-11
Severity: 1
Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been reported in libpng, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).


Description
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The vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak error within the
"png_handle_tEXt()" function in pngrutil.c. This can be exploited to
potentially exhaust all available memory via a specially crafted PNG
image.



Affected packages:

Pardus 2008:
libpng, all before 1.2.33-16-6


Resolution
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There are update(s) for libpng. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console:

pisi up libpng

References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8565
* http://secunia.com/advisories/32418/

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http://security.pardus.org.tr


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