Package: libpng
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for libpng.


CVE-2008-1382[0]:
| libpng 1.0.6 through 1.0.32, 1.2.0 through 1.2.26, and 1.4.0beta01
| through 1.4.0beta19 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a
| denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a
| PNG file with zero length "unknown" chunks, which trigger an access of
| uninitialized memory.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1382
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-1382

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