USN-2861-1: libpng vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2861-1

6th January, 2016

libpng vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 15.10
  • Ubuntu 15.04
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

libpng could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a
specially crafted file.

Software description

  • libpng
    – PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file library

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)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 15.10:
libpng12-0

1.2.51-0ubuntu3.15.10.2
Ubuntu 15.04:
libpng12-0

1.2.51-0ubuntu3.15.04.2
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libpng12-0

1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libpng12-0

1.2.46-3ubuntu4.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2015-8472,

CVE-2015-8540

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