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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:37:39 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: libpng: Out-of heap-based buffer
 read by inflating certain PNG images

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On 07/24/2012 12:45 AM, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> An out-of heap-based buffer read flaw was found in the way libpng,
> a library of functions or creating and manipulating PNG (Portable
> Network Graphics) image format files, performed reading of PNG
> image file data when decompressing certain images. A remote
> attacker could provide a specially-crafted PNG file, which once
> opened in an application linked against libpng would lead to that
> application crash.
> 
> References: [1]
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668082
> 
> Can a CVE id be please assigned to this issue.
> 
> Thanks!

Just a quick note: this was previously fixed in 1.2.48 by removing the
offending function.

Please use CVE-2012-3425 for this issue.


- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993



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