Sam James <[email protected]> writes:

> Cosmin Truta <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Hello, everyone,
>
> Hi Cosmin,
>
>>
>> libpng 1.6.59 has been released, fixing a medium-severity
>> use-after-free vulnerability in the sequential reader, present since
>> libpng 1.6.0. It affects applications that call png_read_end without
>> first starting to read the image rows.
>>
>> Users should either upgrade to libpng 1.6.59 or apply the fix
>> described below.
>>
>> [...]
>
> I can't find a tarball for libpng-1.6.59 in the usual places:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/ has no 1.6.59
> dir and http://libpng.download/src linked from the README in the repo
> has no recent releases.

Hanno pointed out the tarball is there now, thanks.

>
> Is there a plan to make an official tarball available, or to use the
> GitHub autogenerated ones going forward? The latter is unfortunate if so
> because they're not guaranteed to be stable (and can't be signed, though
> libpng releases aren't signed at the moment; was going to file a bug
> asking about that).

Any thoughts on this though?

>
> Cheers!
> sam

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