Bug 154380 – media-libs/libpng: sPLT chunk handling denial of service (CVE-2006-5793)

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) 2006-11-07 09:08:45 UTC]

A typo in png_set_sPLT() may cause an application using libpng to read out of bounds, resulting in a crash.

This was discovered by Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Auditing Team.

patch attached.

[Comment 1 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) 2006-11-07 09:10:03 UTC]

Created attachment 101400 [details, diff]
sPLT chunk handling fix

[Comment 2 Matthias Geerdsen (RETIRED) 2006-11-09 06:56:54 UTC]

vapier, could you attach an updated ebuild
as usual, pls don't commit anything yet

tavis, is there a disclosure date or anything?

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2006-11-09 15:59:27 UTC]

Created attachment 101579 [details]
libpng-1.2.12-r2.ebuild

[Comment 4 Matthias Geerdsen (RETIRED) 2006-11-10 02:33:13 UTC]

thanks vapier

arch security liaisons, pls test the attached ebuild and give your ok on this bug do not commit anything yet

[Comment 5 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2006-11-10 05:21:40 UTC]

sparc looks fine.

[Comment 6 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2006-11-13 09:55:56 UTC]

ppc looks good

[Comment 7 Joshua Jackson (RETIRED) 2006-11-13 10:44:05 UTC]

x86 looks good

[Comment 8 René Nussbaumer (RETIRED) 2006-11-13 12:03:01 UTC]

looks good on hppa

[Comment 9 Thomas Cort (RETIRED) 2006-11-13 15:14:10 UTC]

looks good on amd64.

[Comment 10 Matthias Geerdsen (RETIRED) 2006-11-14 11:59:53 UTC]

vapier, pls commit the ebuild

alpha/ppc64 test and mark stable pls, we really want this to go out soon

calling the remaining arches when the ebuild has been committed

[Comment 11 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2006-11-15 05:23:44 UTC]

looks good on ppc64. please commit with stable ppc64 keyword, too. sorry for being late (that 'having no internet connection thing')

[Comment 12 SpanKY 2006-11-15 06:50:58 UTC]

1.2.13 now in portage

[Comment 13 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2006-11-15 07:29:28 UTC]

Arch keywording needed. Target keywords are:

alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd

[Comment 14 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-11-15 08:13:19 UTC]

alpha/amd64/ppc/x86 done...

[Comment 15 Matthias Geerdsen (RETIRED) 2006-11-15 12:32:02 UTC]

someone please mark this stable on sparc/ppc64/hppa (see comment #5, comment #8, comment #11) so that we can send the GLSA

[Comment 16 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2006-11-15 13:58:50 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 17 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2006-11-16 04:38:52 UTC]

sparc stable.

[Comment 18 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2006-11-16 07:03:54 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 19 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2006-11-17 14:36:35 UTC]

GLSA 200611-09

Thx everyone.