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A libpng update is available for Fedora Core 2

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-175
2004-06-18
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : libpng
Version : 1.2.5
Release : 5
Summary : A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format
files.
Description :
The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm.

Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image files.



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Update Information:

During an audit of Red Hat Linux updates, the Fedora Legacy team found a security issue in libpng that had not been fixed in Fedora Core. An attacker could carefully craft a PNG file in such a way that it would cause an application linked to libpng to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened by a victim.

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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/

7110a37d68c8c40e714a1ac98968bf8c SRPMS/libpng-1.2.5-5.src.rpm
459fcd366522dc38efb4a652d8def823 x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-5.x86_64.rpm
4d7c8e03855acd7b9becbe4346018696 x86_64/libpng-devel-1.2.5-5.x86_64.rpm
57c26ab46c584b6f0f988158d898c054
x86_64/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.5-5.x86_64.rpm
9d383cea2fa4aef94fa80531214707bd x86_64/libpng-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm
f880999528679481d1c6ff76559a3049 x86_64/libpng-devel-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm
213aeb2882f3ebba9859367b46e64849
x86_64/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm9d383cea2fa4aef94fa80531214707bd i386/libpng-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm
f880999528679481d1c6ff76559a3049 i386/libpng-devel-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm
213aeb2882f3ebba9859367b46e64849
i386/debug/libpng-debuginfo-1.2.5-5.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.