-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ________________________________________________________________________ OpenPKG Security Advisory OpenPKG GmbH http://openpkg.org/security/ http://openpkg.com OpenPKG-SA-2006.036 2006-11-17 ________________________________________________________________________ Package: png Vulnerability: denial of service OpenPKG Specific: no Affected Series: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages: E1.0-SOLID <= png-1.2.12-E1.0.0 >= png-1.2.12-E1.0.1 2-STABLE-20061018 <= png-1.2.12-2.20061018 >= png-1.2.13-2.20061116 2-STABLE <= png-1.2.12-2.20061018 >= png-1.2.13-2.20061116 CURRENT <= png-1.2.12-20061012 >= png-1.2.13-20061116 Description: As confirmed by the vendor, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the PNG [0] image format library libpng [1], versions 1.0.6 through 1.2.12 and 1.0.20. The bug is in the decoder for the sPLT ("suggested palette") chunk and can lead to crashes and, accordingly, a DoS, when an application using libpng for PNG processing displays a specially crafted PNG image. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id CVE-2006-5793 [2] to the problem. ________________________________________________________________________ References: [0] http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ [1] http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5793 ________________________________________________________________________ For security reasons, this advisory was digitally signed with the OpenPGP public key "OpenPKG <openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx>" (ID 63C4CB9F) which you can retrieve from http://openpkg.org/openpkg.org.pgp. Follow the instructions on http://openpkg.org/security/signatures/ for details on how to verify the integrity of this advisory. ________________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: OpenPKG <openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx> iD8DBQFFXXaWgHWT4GPEy58RAhKOAJwMnHAAuITUWPEiMFaGMiBK9DattACeKq+J T9O+2CcdG0iwbDjXV1/Sl40= =6FRk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
