Tuesday, September 14, 2010

libglpng: Code Execution

Users of libglpng please be advised of a Code Execution vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
MDVSA-2010:179: [MDVSA-2010:179] libglpng Code Execution
Problem Description:



A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libglpng:



Multiple integer overflows in glpng.c in glpng 1.45 allow

context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted

PNG image, related to (1) the pngLoadRawF function and (2) the pngLoadF

function, leading to heap-based buffer overflows (CVE-2010-1519).
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
 

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