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A libpng security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux



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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2410-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
February 15, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : libpng
Vulnerability : integer overflow
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2011-3026

Jueri Aedla discovered an integer overflow in the libpng PNG library,
which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed
image is processed.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.44-1+squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your libpng packages.

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