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Secunia Advisory SA49660

Gentoo update for libpng
Secunia Advisory SA49660
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Release Date 2012-06-22
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Gentoo Linux
Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-5063 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-2501 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-2690 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-2691 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-2692 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-3026 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-3045 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-3048 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-3464 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Gentoo has issued an update for libpng. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA45046
SA47827
SA48026
SA48485
SA48587


Solution
Update to "media-libs/libpng-1.2.49" or later or "media-libs/libpng-1.5.10" or later.
Original Advisory
GLSA 201206-15:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml

Other references
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

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