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libpng Information for VU#643615

Date Notified:
Date Updated:2010-07-01
Statement Date:2010-06-26
Status Summary:Affected

Vendor Statement

This libpng bug was publicly disclosed yesterday via checkins to the Mozilla repositories
and subsequently by release of libpng-1.4.3 and 1.2.44, in which the bug is fixed.
See http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

An additional memory-leak bug with reading a malformed PNG sCAL chunk was also
disclosed and fixed.

All versions of libpng prior to 1.2.44 and libpng-1.4.3 and all libpng-1.0.X versions
are vulnerable.  Libpng-1.0.X is no longer supported and will not receive
security updates, as announced in February 2010 when libpng-1.0.53 was released.

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