Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-56
Advisory Release Date: 2012-03-23 14:13 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 15:42 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libpng processed compressed chunks in PNG image files. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PNG image file 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-2011-3045)
Affected Packages:
libpng
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libpng to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
libpng-debuginfo-1.2.48-1.11.amzn1.i686
libpng-devel-1.2.48-1.11.amzn1.i686
libpng-1.2.48-1.11.amzn1.i686
libpng-static-1.2.48-1.11.amzn1.i686
src:
libpng-1.2.48-1.11.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libpng-static-1.2.48-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
libpng-1.2.48-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
libpng-devel-1.2.48-1.11.amzn1.x86_64
libpng-debuginfo-1.2.48-1.11.amzn1.x86_64