Debian Security Advisory
DSA-536-1 libpng -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 04 Aug 2004
- Affected Packages:
- libpng
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0597, CVE-2004-0598, CVE-2004-0599, CVE-2004-0768.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#388984, VU#817368, VU#236656, VU#160448, VU#286464, VU#477512. - More information:
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Chris Evans discovered several vulnerabilities in libpng:
- CAN-2004-0597
Multiple buffer overflows exist, including when handling transparency chunk data, which could be exploited to cause arbitrary code to be executed when a specially crafted PNG image is processed
- CAN-2004-0598
Multiple NULL pointer dereferences in png_handle_iCPP() and elsewhere could be exploited to cause an application to crash when a specially crafted PNG image is processed
- CAN-2004-0599
Multiple integer overflows in the png_handle_sPLT(), png_read_png() functions and elsewhere could be exploited to cause an application to crash, or potentially arbitrary code to be executed, when a specially crafted PNG image is processed
In addition, a bug related to CAN-2002-1363 was fixed:
- CAN-2004-0768
A buffer overflow could be caused by incorrect calculation of buffer offsets, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code
For the current stable distribution (woody), these problems have been fixed in libpng3 version 1.2.1-1.1.woody.7 and libpng version 1.0.12-3.woody.7.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your libpng and libpng3 packages.
- CAN-2004-0597
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.0.12-3.woody.7.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.0.12-3.woody.7.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.0.12.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.0.12-3.woody.7.diff.gz
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2_1.0.12-3.woody.7_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng-dev_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng3/libpng3_1.2.1-1.1.woody.7_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng2-dev_1.0.12-3.woody.7_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.