Product: Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10A remote unprivileged user may be able to crash an application which dynamically links to the Portable Network Graphics library (libpng(3)) due to a security vulnerability in libpng(3). The ability to crash an application is a type of Denial of Service (DoS). A number of applications which comprise the GNOME desktop environment dynamically link with libpng(3). This issue is described in the following documents: CERT VU# 684664 at: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684664 CVE-2007-2445 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2445 State: WorkaroundFirst ...
Product: Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10
A remote unprivileged user may be able to crash an application which dynamically links to the Portable Network Graphics library (libpng(3)) due to a security vulnerability in libpng(3). The ability to crash an application is a type of Denial of Service (DoS). A number of applications which comprise the GNOME desktop environment dynamically link with libpng(3).
This issue is described in the following documents:
- CERT VU# 684664 at: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684664
- CVE-2007-2445 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2445
State: Workaround
First released: 28-Jun-2007
