Summary
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200405-06.
Solution
All users of libpng should upgrade to the latest stable version:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv '>=media-libs/libpng-1.2.5-r5'
# emerge '>=media-libs/libpng-1.2.5-r5'
You should also run revdep-rebuild to rebuild any packages that depend on older versions of libpng :
# revdep-rebuild
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200405-06 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49887
Insight
A bug in the libpng library can be abused to crash programs making use of that library to decode PNG images.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2004-0421 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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