Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Pngcrush, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information or potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Pngcrush libpng Unknown Chunk Processing Uninitialized Memory Access
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30157
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30157/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Pngcrush 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/18625/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Pngcrush, which can be exploited
by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information or
potentially compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to the use of vulnerable libpng
code.
For more information:
SA29792
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.6.5.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://libpng.sourceforge.net/Advisory-1.2.26.txt
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29792:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29792/
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