Glenn-Randers Pehrson discovered an buffer overflow in the libpng PNG library, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image is processed.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.44-1+squeeze3. Packages for i386 are not yet available, but will be provided shortly. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your libpng packages.

libpng is a library implementing an interface for reading and writing PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format files.

libpng on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2439.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25