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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-3964: POV-Ray: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-3964: POV-Ray: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/10/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Multiple off-by-one errors in libpng before 1.2.32beta01, and 1.4 before 1.4.0beta34, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a PNG image with crafted zTXt chunks, related to (1) the png_push_read_zTXt function in pngread.c, and possibly related to (2) pngtest.c.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-gfx-povray

References

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