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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200611-09">
+ <title>libpng: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A vulnerability in libpng may allow a remote attacker to crash applications
+ that handle untrusted images.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">libpng</product>
+ <announced>2006-11-17</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2006-11-17</revised>
+ <bug>154380</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-libs/libpng" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.2.13</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.2.13</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ libpng is a free ANSI C library used to process and manipulate PNG
+ images.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that a
+ vulnerability exists in the sPLT chunk handling code of libpng, a large
+ sPLT chunk may cause an application to attempt to read out of bounds.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could craft an image that when processed or viewed by
+ an application using libpng causes the application to terminate
+ abnormally.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All libpng users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-libs/libpng-1.2.13"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5793">CVE-2006-5793</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-11-10T11:17:04Z">
+ taviso
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-11-16T15:07:26Z">
+ vorlon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>