Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2410-1 libpng

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2410-1 libpng -- integer overflow

Date Reported:

15 Feb 2012

Affected Packages:

libpng

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-3026.

More information:

Jueri Aedla discovered an integer overflow in the libpng PNG library, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image is processed.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.44-1+squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libpng packages.