Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libpng:
An off-by-one error when handling ICC profile chunks in the png_set_iCCP() function (CVE-2007-5266
only affects Mandriva Linux
2008.0).
George Cook and Jeff Phillips reported several errors in pngrtran.c, such as the use of logical instead of bitwise functions and incorrect comparisons (CVE-2007-5268
only affects Mandriva Linux 2008.0).
Tavis Ormandy reported out-of-bounds read errors in several PNG chunk handling functions (CVE-2007-5269).
Updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
For Mandriva Linux 2008.0, libpng 1.2.22 is being provided which corrects all three issues.
Affected
libpng on Mandriva Linux 2007.0,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1,
Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-5266, CVE-2007-5268, CVE-2007-5269 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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