MGASA-2018-0468

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    MGASA-2018-0468

    Published: 27 Nov 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-13785

    Summary: Updated libpng(12) packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: In libpng until version 1.6.35, a wrong calculation of row_factor in the png_check_chunk_length function (pngrutil.c) may trigger an integer overflow and resultant divide-by-zero while processing a crafted PNG file, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2018-13785) This update fixes it, also providing the current maintenance releases in the 1.2 and 1.6 stable branches.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0468.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23307, https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-13785.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libpng

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libpng?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.6.35-1.mga6

    Affected versions

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