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DESA-2004-013 - libpng: several vulnerabilities



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Debian-Edu/Skolelinux Security Advisory DESA 2004-013
http://www.skolelinux.no/security/                      Morten Werner Olsen
August 29, 2004                 debian-edu-security@lists.alioth.debian.org
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Package             : libpng
Vulnerability       : several
Problem-Type        : remote
Need reboot         : no
Debian-Edu-specific : no
CVE ID              : CAN-2004-0597, CAN-2004-0598, CAN-2004-0599,
                      CAN-2004-0768
DSA ID              : DSA-536-1

Chris Evans discovered several vulnerabilities in libpng. These
include multiple buffer overflows, NULL pointer dereferences and
integer overflows.

We recommend that you upgrade your libpng packages.

Upgrade Instructions
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Make sure the line

  deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

is present in your /etc/apt/sources.list and run 'apt-get update' to
update your package lists. Then run 'apt-get install libpng2' to
upgrade your libpng package.

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Mailing list: bruker@skolelinux.no, debian-edu@lists.debian.org,
              linuxiskolen@skolelinux.no, user@skolelinux.de
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>'

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