| Summary: | <media-libs/libpng-1.2.54: out of bounds read (CVE-2015-7981) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
| Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | base-system, flow |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/26/1 | ||
| Whiteboard: | A3 [glsa cve] | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | 565678 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201611-08 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-08 by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man). |
From ${URL} : there is a memory read out of bound in libpng 1.2.* and 1.4.* , which is used in many operate systems and applications. it may leak information in the application . this bug has been accepted and fixed in LIBPNG : http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/bugs/241/ @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.