Burton,
if you have time go ahead and update the repository.

Thanks, Luca

Burton Strauss wrote:

>Luca:
>
>Based on the announcement at libpng and others, we should probably consider updating 
>our version of libpng to the recently released v1.2.4
>
>Based on what I've read - but there isn't much info - I don't THINK we're vulnerable 
>- it's more that a bad-guy server could kill the browser, vs. a specific request to 
>ntop causing ntop to send the bad-guy stuff, but better safe than sorry...  And 
>because this - like many others advisories, will become a checklist item!
>
>Any comments?  Thoughts? Ideas?  Gang??
>
>-----Burton
>
>
>References:
>
>http://lwn.net/Alerts/5008/:
>
>"The 1.2.4* and 1.0.14 releases of libpng solve a potential buffer overflow 
>vulnerability[1] in some functions related to progressive  image loading. Programs 
>such as mozilla and various others use these functions. An attacker could exploit 
>this to remotely run arbitrary code or crash an application by using a specially 
>crafted png image."
>
>http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngnews.html:
>
>8 July 2002 - libpng 1.2.4 and 1.0.14 are released. These versions plug some memory 
>leaks and eliminate a buffer-overflow vulnerability that could be triggered by 
>too-large zlib streams. (This is completely unrelated to the zlib-specific 
>vulnerability described in the 11 March 2002 entry below.) 
>
>ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png-group/archives/png-list.200207
>
>
>
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