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Fedora Core 1 2004-106: libpng10

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the libpng10 package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2004-106 (libpng10).

The libpng10 package contains an old version of libpng, a library of
functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
image format files.

This package is needed if you want to run binaries that were linked
dynamically
with libpng 1.0.x.

* Mon Apr 19 2004 Matthias Clasen

- fix a possible out-of-bounds read in the error message
handler. #121229

* Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee

- rebuilt

* Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee

- rebuilt

Solution : http://www.fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-106.shtml
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

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