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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-6218

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-6218

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/20/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Memory leak in the png_handle_tEXt function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.33 rc02 and 1.4.0 beta36 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a crafted PNG file.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libpng
  • suse-upgrade-libpng-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng-devel-64bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng-x86
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-0
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-compat-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-compat-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng14-14
  • suse-upgrade-libpng14-14-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng14-compat-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng14-compat-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng14-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng14-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-sap-aio-release

References

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