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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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