USN-1175-1: libpng vulnerabilities
26 July 2011
Libpng could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- libpng - PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file library
Details
Frank Busse discovered that libpng did not properly handle certain
malformed PNG images. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a crafted PNG file, an attacker could cause libpng to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.04. (CVE-2011-2501)
It was discovered that libpng did not properly handle certain malformed PNG
images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted
PNG file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2011-2690)
Frank Busse discovered that libpng did not properly handle certain PNG
images with invalid sCAL chunks. If a user or automated system were tricked
into opening a crafted PNG file, an attacker could cause a denial of
service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
invoking the program. (CVE-2011-2692)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.