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AA-2009.0139 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- libpng: Reduced Security
Date: 15 June 2009
References: ESB-2009.1425 ESB-2010.0282 ESB-2010.0338.2

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AA-2009.0139                  AUSCERT Advisory

                             [Win][UNIX/Linux]
                         libpng: Reduced Security
                               15 June 2009
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        AusCERT Advisory Summary
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Product:              libpng
Operating System:     UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
                      Windows
Impact:               Reduced Security
Access:               Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names:            CVE-2009-2042
Member content until: Tuesday, July 07 2009

Revision History:     June 15 2009: Added CVE
                      June  9 2009: Initial Release

OVERVIEW:

       A security vulnerability has been confirmed in libpng.


IMPACT:

       The vendor has provided the following information regarding this
       vulnerability:

       "Jeff Phillips reported that several versions of libpng through 
       1.2.35 contain an uninitialized-memory-read bug that may have 
       security implications. Specifically, 1-bit (2-color) interlaced 
       images whose widths are not divisible by 8 may result in several 
       uninitialized bits at the end of certain rows in certain interlace 
       passes being returned to the user. An application that failed to 
       mask these out-of-bounds pixels might display or process them, 
       albeit presumably with benign results in most cases. This bug may be 
       fixed in version 1.2.36, released 7 May 2009, but the correct fix is 
       in version 1.2.37, released 4 June 2009." [1]


MITIGATION:

       The vendor has released libpng version 1.2.37 which is available for
       download from the vendor's website. [1]


REFERENCES:

       [1] libpng
           http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html


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