[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: libpng-1.2.35-1.fc9
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Thu Feb 26 15:34:52 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-2128
2009-02-26 15:02:45
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Name : libpng
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 1.2.35
Release : 1.fc9
URL : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
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:
Fixes CVE-2009-0040
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Feb 25 2009 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 2:1.2.35-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.35, to fix CVE-2009-0040
* Fri Jan 9 2009 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 2:1.2.34-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.34
* Sun Nov 2 2008 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 2:1.2.33-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.33
* Sat May 31 2008 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 2:1.2.29-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.29 (fixes low-priority security issue CVE-2008-1382)
Related: #441839
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #486355 - CVE-2009-0040 libpng arbitrary free() flaw
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486355
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
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