-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-7 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : libpng SUMMARY : buffer overflow DATE : 2003-01-08 15:01 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From Debian Security Advisory DSA 213-1: "Glenn Randers-Pehrson discovered a problem in connection with 16-bit samples from libpng, an interface for reading and writing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format files. The starting offsets for the loops are calculated incorrectly which causes a buffer overrun beyond the beginning of the row buffer." Read the full advisory at http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-213 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running media-libs/libpng-1.2.5-r1 or earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge libpng If you also have libpng-1.0.12-r1 or earlier installed update your system as follows: emerge \=media-libs/libpng-1.0.12-r2 Finish with: emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- alizat_private - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+HEShfT7nyhUpoZMRAvoiAKCKhtJz+FVEW84Zr+NDEQ5xYcqf7gCgxLZ8 teSWsNMM8ls6TU7MfX7/lyM= =bhV+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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