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- Author: Miklos Vajna
- Vulnerable: 1.2.29-1
- Unaffected: 1.2.32-1solaria1
A vulnerability has been reported in libpng, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-one error within the “png_push_read_zTXt()” function in pngread.c when processing malicious PNG images with specially crafted zTXt chunks, which can be exploited to crash an application using the library.
- Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/3367