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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2010.0157.2
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in libpng
1 July 2010
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: libpng prior to 1.4.3
libpng prior to 1.2.44
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2010-1205 CVE-2010-2249
Member content until: Thursday, July 29 2010
Revision History: July 1 2010: Added CVE reference
June 29 2010: Initial Release
OVERVIEW
A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in libpng, which have
been corrected in versions 1.4.3 and 1.2.44.
IMPACT
The vendor has provided the following description of these
vulnerabilities:
"Several versions of libpng through 1.4.2 (and through 1.2.43 in the
older series) contain a bug whereby progressive applications such as
web browsers (or the rpng2 demo app included in libpng) could receive
an extra row of image data beyond the height reported in the header,
potentially leading to an out-of-bounds write to memory (depending on
how the application is written) and the possibility of execution of
an attacker's code with the privileges of the libpng user (including
remote compromise in the case of a libpng-based browser visiting a
hostile web site). This vulnerability has been assigned ID
CVE-2010-1205 (via Mozilla).
An additional memory-leak bug, involving images with malformed sCAL
chunks, is also present; it could lead to an application crash
(denial of service) when viewing such images." [1]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends upgrading to the latest version of libpng. [1]
REFERENCES
[1] libpng Home Page
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
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If you believe that your computer system has been compromised or attacked in
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