[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: libpng10-1.0.57-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2028
2012-02-19 23:01:48
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Name        : libpng10
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.0.57
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Summary     : Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries
Description :
The libpng10 package contains an old version of libpng, a library of functions
for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format
files.

This package is needed if you want to run binaries that were linked dynamically
with libpng 1.0.x.

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Update Information:

This update addresses an integer overflow in the libpng10 PNG library, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image is processed.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Feb 19 2012 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.57-1
- update to 1.0.57 (fixed CVE-2011-3026 buffer overrun bug)
* Thu Jan  5 2012 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.0.56-2
- rebuilt for gcc 4.7
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #790737 - CVE-2011-3026 libpng: Heap-buffer-overflow in png_decompress_chunk (MFSA 2012-11)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790737
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libpng10' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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