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Fedora Core 2 2004-238: 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-2004-238 (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 several buffer overflows have been discovered in libpng. A possible hacker could create a carefully crafted PNG file in such a way that it would cause an application linked with libpng to execute arbitrary code when the file was opened by a victim. Solution : http://www.fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-238.shtml Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: 10857 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security

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