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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200804-15">
+ <title>libpng: Execution of arbitrary code</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A vulnerability in libpng may allow for execution of arbitrary code in
+ certain applications that handle untrusted images.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">libpng</product>
+ <announced>2008-04-15</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2008-04-15</revised>
+ <bug>217047</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-libs/libpng" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.2.26-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.2.26-r1</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 Google Security Team discovered that libpng does
+ not handle zero-length unknown chunks in PNG files correctly, which
+ might lead to memory corruption in applications that call
+ png_set_read_user_chunk_fn() or png_set_keep_unknown_chunks().
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to process a
+ specially crafted PNG image in an application using libpng and possibly
+ execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the
+ application. Note that processing of unknown chunks is disabled by
+ default in most PNG applications, but some such as ImageMagick are
+ affected.
+ </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-1.2.26-r1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1382">CVE-2008-1382</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-04-14T01:44:56Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-04-14T01:49:03Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-04-14T08:39:38Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>