44364 : libpng Zero-length Unknown Chunk Processing Uninitialized Memory Access
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about 1 month ago

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Disclosure
Apr 12, 2008

Discovery
Unknown

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Unknown

Solution
Apr 12, 2008

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Description

 (Description Provided by CVE) : libpng 1.0.6 through 1.0.32, 1.2.0 through 1.2.26, and 1.4.0beta01 through 1.4.0beta19 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a PNG file with zero length "unknown" chunks, which trigger an access of uninitialized memory.

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Solution

 Upgrade to version 1.2.27beta01 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

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Unknown or Incomplete

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2008/05/06 02:52:10 | Plagiarism?

from: Slackadelic.com

Wikipedia defines plagiarism as: Plagiarism is the practice of claiming or implying original authorship of (or incorporating material from) someone else’s written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one’s own without adequate acknowledgement. Now, I’m sure most of you are wondering what in the hell I’m talking about

2008/04/29 08:51:47 | Slackware 12.1 RC 3

from: SlackBlogs

Another RC release towards 12.1 and it's been officially freezed for non-critical updates and save further big changes after -Current gets started ... =CVE-2008-1382 ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng

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