Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in libpng, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
libpng Interlaced Images Information Disclosure Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35346
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35346/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in libpng, which can be exploited
by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing 1-bit
interlaced images. This can be exploited to disclose uninitialised
memory via specially crafted images having widths that are not
divisible by 8.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.2.37.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.37.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Jeff Phillips.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
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