Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2072-1 libpng -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

19 Jul 2010

Affected Packages:

libpng

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 533676, Bug 572308.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-1205, CVE-2010-2249.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libpng, a library for reading and writing PNG files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2010-1205
It was discovered a buffer overflow in libpng which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PNG image that triggers an additional data row.
CVE-2010-2249
It was discovered a memory leak in libpng which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a PNG image containing malformed Physical Scale (aka sCAL) chunks

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.27-2+lenny4.

For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distribution, these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.44-1

We recommend that you upgrade your libpng package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.27-2+lenny4.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.27.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.27-2+lenny4.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng3_1.2.27-2+lenny4_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_alpha.udeb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_amd64.udeb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_arm.udeb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_arm.deb
ARM EABI:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_armel.udeb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_armel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_armel.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_hppa.udeb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_i386.udeb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_ia64.udeb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_mips.udeb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_mipsel.udeb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_powerpc.udeb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_s390.udeb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.27-2+lenny4_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0-udeb_1.2.27-2+lenny4_sparc.udeb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-dev_1.2.27-2+lenny4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.