USN-2861-1

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USN-2861-1

Summary: libpng vulnerabilities

Details: It was discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain small bit-depth values. If a user or automated system using libpng were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or execute code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2015-8472) Qixue Xiao and Chen Yu discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain malformed images. If a user or automated system using libpng were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8540)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2861-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8472, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8540