libpng security update

Updated libpng packages are available that fix a buffer overflow vulnerability.

The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and
manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG
is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format.

Versions of libpng prior to 1.0.14 contain a buffer overflow in the
progressive reader when the PNG datastream contains more IDAT data than
indicated by the IHDR chunk. Such deliberately malformed datastreams would
crash applications linked to libpng such as Mozilla that use the
progressive reading feature.

Packages within Red Hat Linux Advanced Server , such as Mozilla, make use
of the shared libpng library, therefore all users are advised to upgrade to
the errata packages which contain libpng 1.0.14. Libpng 1.0.14 is not
vulnerable to this issue and contains fixes for other bugs including a
number of memory leaks.

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red
Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0660
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0728
ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png-group/archives/png-list.200207

buffer, IDAT, IHDR, libpng, overflow