libpng security vulnerability: lots of apps that display pngs don't use libpng

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Subject: libpng security vulnerability: lots of apps that display pngs don't use libpng
From: William Ballard <40711.nospam@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:31:41 -0700
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Saw the buffer overrun exploit in libpng in the news today.

I guess .so files in Linux are like .dll files in Windows, every app 
which displays pngs will be "fixed" by the recently updated libpng* 
packages which fix the bug?

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