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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-375-1 libpng -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

27 Dec 2015

Affected Packages:

libpng

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3425, CVE-2015-8472, CVE-2015-8540.

More information:

• CVE-2015-8472

  update incomplete patch for CVE-2015-8126

• CVE-2015-8540

  underflow read in png_check_keyword in pngwutil.c

• CVE-2012-3425

  The png_push_read_zTXt function in pngpread.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.58, 1.2.x before 1.2.48, 1.4.x before 1.4.10, and 1.5.x before 1.5.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a large avail_in field value in a PNG image.