Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New libpng packages fix potential buffer overflow |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-140 | First vendor Publication | 2002-08-01 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2002-08-05 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 2 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| In addition to the advisory DSA 140-1 the packages below fix another potential buffer overflow. The PNG libraries implement a safety margin which is also included in a newer upstream release. Thanks to Glenn Randers-Pehrson for informing us. This problem has been fixed in version 1.0.12-3.woody.2 of libpng and version 1.2.1-1.1.woody.2 of libpng3 for the current stable distribution (woody). We recommend that you upgrade your libpng packages. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-140 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 | |
| Application | 1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 140-1 (libpng2, libpng3) File : nvt/deb_140_1.nasl |
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 140-2 (libpng, libpng3) File : nvt/deb_140_2.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 14435 | libpng Progressive Reader Malformed PNG Overflow |
| 14431 | libpng Wide PNG Image Overflow |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-140.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-31 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2002-049.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-06 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2002-152.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:26:59 |
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