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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200405-06">
+ <title>libpng denial of service vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A bug in the libpng library can be abused to crash programs making use of
+ that library to decode PNG images.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">libpng</product>
+ <announced>May 14, 2004</announced>
+ <revised>May 14, 2004: 01</revised>
+ <bug>49887</bug>
+ <access>remote </access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-libs/libpng" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.2.5-r5</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="le">1.2.5-r4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ libpng is a standard library used to process PNG (Portable Network
+ Graphics) images.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ libpng provides two functions (png_chunk_error and png_chunk_warning) for
+ default error and warning messages handling. These functions do not perform
+ proper bounds checking on the provided message, which is limited to 64
+ bytes. Programs linked against this library may crash when handling a
+ malicious PNG image.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ This vulnerability could be used to crash various programs using the libpng
+ library, potentially resulting in a denial of service attack on vulnerable
+ daemon processes.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time. All users are advised to upgrade
+ to the latest available version of libpng.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All users of libpng should upgrade to the latest stable version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge sync
+
+ # emerge -pv ">=media-libs/libpng-1.2.5-r5"
+ # emerge ">=media-libs/libpng-1.2.5-r5"</code>
+ <p>
+ You should also run revdep-rebuild to rebuild any packages that depend on
+ older versions of libpng :
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # revdep-rebuild</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0421">CAN-2004-0421</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>