OptiPNG: Multiple vulnerabilities

OptiPNG: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in OptiPNG, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code. optipng 2018-01-07 2018-01-07 637936 639690 remote 0.7.6-r2 0.7.6-r2

OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that re-compresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OptiPNG. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted image file, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All OptiPNG users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/optipng-0.7.6-r2"

CVE-2017-1000229 CVE-2017-16938 jmbailey jmbailey