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Fedora update for libpng Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27492  
Release Date: 2007-11-06

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Fedora Core 6


CVE reference:CVE-2007-5269 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Fedora has issued an update for libpng. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA27093

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

a3ad279b3ad57fa400c4f4d399a41160c0d56139 SRPMS/libpng-1.2.10-10.fc6.src.rpm
a3ad279b3ad57fa400c4f4d399a41160c0d56139 noarch/libpng-1.2.10-10.fc6.src.rpm
191d90cc3707d58332e6f46458b92fa0de8efa0c ppc/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.10-10.fc6.ppc.rpm
5f9ab7a311b3915cd2c3d61169e74bb650caa5ff ppc/libpng-1.2.10-10.fc6.ppc.rpm
76cc4ed531defe62d6b7b4bd53d9bbfddcefeef7 ppc/libpng-devel-1.2.10-10.fc6.ppc.rpm
f67eee4818850201eb1c948bb8b21abca6d2216c x86_64/libpng-1.2.10-10.fc6.x86_64.rpm
be350a48d12913f9420f2cfc470c635508e21918 x86_64/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.10-10.fc6.x86_64.rpm
33af6f8df736ed07899f60ad866008fa47ea4606 x86_64/libpng-devel-1.2.10-10.fc6.x86_64.rpm
a9a91ed26b66d5f684a06278c2df6a9e2cbdc7fb i386/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.10-10.fc6.i386.rpm
1be72a3fea013be33ccd5abc22a07109dba023e8 i386/libpng-1.2.10-10.fc6.i386.rpm
5a4d9196a9c5b122e94f8634b8baeef2e6228c8a i386/libpng-devel-1.2.10-10.fc6.i386.rpm

Original Advisory:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor...-announce/2007-November/msg00072.html

Other References:
SA27093:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27093/



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