---------------------------------------------------------------------- Secunia Network Software Inspector 2.0 (NSI) - Public Beta 16 days left of beta period. The 1st generation of the Secunia Network Software Inspector (NSI) has been available for corporate users for almost 1 year and its been a tremendous success. The 2nd generation Secunia NSI is built on the same technology as the award winning Secunia PSI, which has already been downloaded and installed on more than 400,000 computers world wide. Learn more / Download (instant access): http://secunia.com/network_software_inspector_2/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: libpng Unknown Chunk Processing Uninitialized Memory Access SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA29792 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/29792/ CRITICAL: Moderately critical IMPACT: Exposure of sensitive information, DoS, System access WHERE: >From remote SOFTWARE: libpng 1.x http://secunia.com/product/3439/ DESCRIPTION: Tavis Ormandy has reported a vulnerability in libpng, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information, or potentially compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to the improper handling of PNG chunks unknown to the library. This can be exploited to trigger the use of uninitialized memory in e.g. a "free()" call via unknown PNG chunks having a length of zero. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the application calls the "png_set_read_user_chunk_fn()" function or the "png_set_keep_unknown_chunks()" function under specific conditions. The vulnerability is reported in versions 1.0.6 through 1.0.32 and 1.2.0 through 1.2.26. SOLUTION: Fixed in version 1.2.27beta01. Do not process untrusted PNG data with applications using libpng. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Tavis Ormandy, oCERT Team. ORIGINAL ADVISORY: libpng: http://libpng.sourceforge.net/Advisory-1.2.26.txt oCERT: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-003.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------