[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: libpng-1.2.44-1.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-10592
2010-06-30 14:47:00
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Name        : libpng
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.2.44
Release     : 1.fc12
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:

Update to libpng 1.2.44, includes fixes for CVE-2010-1205 and CVE-2010-2249
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 29 2010 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 2:1.2.44-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.44, includes fixes for CVE-2010-1205 and CVE-2010-2249
Resolves: #609161
* Mon Mar 15 2010 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 2:1.2.43-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.43, includes fix for CVE-2010-0205
Related: #566234
* Wed Jan 20 2010 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 2:1.2.42-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.42
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #608644 - CVE-2010-2249 libpng: Memory leak when processing Physical Scale (sCAL) images
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608644
  [ 2 ] Bug #608238 - CVE-2010-1205 libpng: out-of-bounds memory write
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608238
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libpng' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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