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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-4673
2010-03-16 23:03:23
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Name : libpng
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 1.2.43
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 1.2.43, includes fix for CVE-2010-0205
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Mar 15 2010 Tom Lane <tgl@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@redhat.com> 2:1.2.42-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.42
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #566234 - CVE-2010-0205 libpng: excessive memory consumption due to highly compressed huge ancillary chunk
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566234
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libpng' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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