ALAS-2012-049


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-49
Advisory Release Date: 2012-03-04 16:09 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 15:23 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libpng. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PNG image that, when opened, could cause an application using libpng to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2011-3026)


Affected Packages:

libpng


Issue Correction:
Run yum update libpng to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    libpng-static-1.2.46-2.10.amzn1.i686
    libpng-debuginfo-1.2.46-2.10.amzn1.i686
    libpng-1.2.46-2.10.amzn1.i686
    libpng-devel-1.2.46-2.10.amzn1.i686

src:
    libpng-1.2.46-2.10.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    libpng-static-1.2.46-2.10.amzn1.x86_64
    libpng-1.2.46-2.10.amzn1.x86_64
    libpng-devel-1.2.46-2.10.amzn1.x86_64
    libpng-debuginfo-1.2.46-2.10.amzn1.x86_64