oss-security - CVE request: optipng security release

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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:04:44 +0100
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: OSS Security List <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE request: optipng security release

Hi,

According to http://optipng.sourceforge.net/

optipng released OptiPNG 0.6.2 fixing
"All current OptiPNG versions are known to be vulnerable to memory reallocation attacks, due to a bug in the GIF image reader. 

Please allocate a CVE ID.

Ciao, Marcus

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