RHSA-2002:152

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2002-08-05 07:25 - Updated: 2025-11-21 17:24
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: libpng security update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: Updated libpng packages are available that fix a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Details: The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. Versions of libpng prior to 1.0.14 contain a buffer overflow in the progressive reader when the PNG datastream contains more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk. Such deliberately malformed datastreams would crash applications linked to libpng such as Mozilla that use the progressive reading feature. Packages within Red Hat Linux Advanced Server , such as Mozilla, make use of the shared libpng library, therefore all users are advised to upgrade to the errata packages which contain libpng 1.0.14. Libpng 1.0.14 is not vulnerable to this issue and contains fixes for other bugs including a number of memory leaks.
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CVE-2002-0660

Buffer overflow in libpng 1.0.12-3.woody.2 and libpng3 1.2.1-1.1.woody.2 on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and other operating systems, may allow attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-0728.

Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
Red Hat / Red Hat Advanced Server
 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Important
CVE-2002-0728

Buffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.0.x before 1.0.14, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PNG data stream that has more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk.

Affected products
Fixed 1 product, the same list as for CVE-2002-0660
Threats
Impact Moderate
References
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