Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in Libpng. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1838

Affected Products

Fedora Core 7

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/7/

e9d0f41b57d69f1e6586e0b503ef9b6ccc3e5e9a libpng10-devel-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.ppc64.rpm
2ef256533015c24e8f118d522545ed18a8643ed9 libpng10-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.ppc64.rpm
35238b6de27fb1400b6843fb26dd6d4acc27cc33 libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.ppc64.rpm
0a3e2caac921bdd85bca761ee19cd17172e130b0 libpng10-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.i386.rpm
58be28d63413aff84fcf3e36ffeb8884e751cca8 libpng10-devel-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.i386.rpm
6b9e214bf674647fa3ccd46983d82c000f822708 libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.i386.rpm
35f6ec7b1b873d8c303ca519b60d68fda09b08c9 libpng10-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.x86_64.rpm
c0a5ee9564b9c3aaf59aa5c55f0532c3484e0b05 libpng10-devel-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.x86_64.rpm
27f21433ba444324e108340c79b41952358e7a5d libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.x86_64.rpm
925fde948bb53bb0c7bd531bb954ad85a925c941 libpng10-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.ppc.rpm
a9d7f273e7adff68cc418b68d6c666574deaef8b libpng10-debuginfo-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.ppc.rpm
5896b5ca2aba2dee876323315f56fc3057079c76 libpng10-devel-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.ppc.rpm
d10cc045eb953333e8b60bb54984b815b0c088ec libpng10-1.0.26-1.fc7.1.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2028
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-May/msg00076.html

ChangeLog

2007-06-04 : Initial release

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