44364 : libpng Zero-length Unknown Chunk Processing Uninitialized Memory Access
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Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Vendor Solution Date
2008-04-05	2008-04-05	2008-04-12	2008-04-12

Time to Patch
7 days

Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : libpng 1.0.6 through 1.0.32, 1.2.0 through 1.2.26, and 1.4.0beta01 through 1.4.0beta19 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a PNG file with zero length "unknown" chunks, which trigger an access of uninitialized memory.

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.2.27beta01 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1019840
CVE ID: 2008-1382 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 28770
Secunia Advisory ID: 29678 29792 29957 29992 30009 30157 30174 30402 30486 31882 33137 34106 34152 34388 35074 35258 35302 35386
ISS X-Force ID: 41800
Related OSVDB ID: 44364
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2008-1225
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://libpng.sourceforge.net/Advisory-1.2.26.txt
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00060.html
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0151
http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6g
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2009-March/000855.html
Other Advisory URL: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00011.html
http://lists.rpath.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008-April/000346.html
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.541247
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.541247
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-259989-1
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-208.htm
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-15.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-10.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-003.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00111.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00951.html
Mail List Post: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00011.html
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-15.xml
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3137
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0007.html
RedHat RHSA: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0333.html

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Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-04-14 | Disagree?

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2008/05/06 02:52:10 | Plagiarism?

from: Slackadelic.com

Wikipedia defines plagiarism as: Plagiarism is the practice of claiming or implying original authorship of (or incorporating material from) someone else’s written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one’s own without adequate acknowledgement. Now, I’m sure most of you are wondering what in the hell I’m talking about

2008/04/29 08:51:47 | Slackware 12.1 RC 3

from: SlackBlogs

Another RC release towards 12.1 and it's been officially freezed for non-critical updates and save further big changes after -Current gets started ... =CVE-2008-1382 ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng

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