Re: [SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2012-05-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/4/2012 8:21 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I have sent notices of multiple security vulnerabilities in libpng going back LAST JULY, with several additions and pings (no pun intended) since. Can we *please* see some sign that you are still maintaining these packages? I wanted to roll out the

Re: [SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2012-05-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-03-29 19:00, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-02-26 02:02, marco atzeri wrote: Vulnerability Warning All versions of libpng from 1.0.6 through 1.5.8, 1.4.8, 1.2.46, and 1.0.56, respectively, fail to correctly validate a heap allocation in png_decompress_chunk(), which can lead to a buff

Re: [SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2012-03-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-02-26 02:02, marco atzeri wrote: again, libpng announced security vulnerabilities: from : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html Vulnerability Warning All versions of libpng from 1.0.6 through 1.5.8, 1.4.8, 1.2.46, and 1.0.56, respectively, fail to correctly validate a heap allocati

Re: [SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2012-02-27 Thread Charles Wilson
On 2/26/2012 3:02 AM, marco atzeri wrote: > All versions of libpng from 1.0.6 through 1.5.8, 1.4.8, 1.2.46, and > 1.0.56, respectively, fail to correctly validate a heap allocation in > png_decompress_chunk(), which can lead to a buffer-overrun and the > possibility of execution of hostile code on

[SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2012-02-26 Thread marco atzeri
Hi Chuck, again, libpng announced security vulnerabilities: from : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html Vulnerability Warning All versions of libpng from 1.0.6 through 1.5.8, 1.4.8, 1.2.46, and 1.0.56, respectively, fail to correctly validate a heap allocation in png_decompress_chunk(),

Re: [SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2011-07-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:40 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 7/26/2011 4:38 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 15:48 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> General question: would it be acceptable to move libpng10 to obsolete > >> (removing libpng10-devel), and NOT update it -- rath

Re: [SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2011-07-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 7/26/2011 4:38 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 15:48 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >> General question: would it be acceptable to move libpng10 to obsolete >> (removing libpng10-devel), and NOT update it -- rather than removing it >> entirely? > > No, because anything which

Re: [SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2011-07-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 15:48 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 7/26/2011 3:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > Remedy: > > Update libpng10 to 1.0.55 (or just remove it, as nothing in the distro > > depends on it any more), libpng12 to 1.2.45, and libpng14 to 1.4.8. > > Thanks for the headsup. I don

Re: [SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2011-07-26 Thread Charles Wilson
On 7/26/2011 3:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > Remedy: > Update libpng10 to 1.0.55 (or just remove it, as nothing in the distro > depends on it any more), libpng12 to 1.2.45, and libpng14 to 1.4.8. Thanks for the headsup. I don't think I can get to this before tomorrow night, tho. General quest

[SECURITY] libpng vulnerabilities

2011-07-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Chuck, All versions of libpng have recently announced security vulnerabilities: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2690 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2691 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2692 Remedy: Update libpng10 to 1.0.55 (o