[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#863469: pngquant: CVE-2016-5735

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Package: pngquant
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org secure-testing-team at lists.alioth.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for pngquant.

CVE-2016-5735[0]:
| Integer overflow in the rwpng_read_image24_libpng function in rwpng.c
| in pngquant 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact
| via a crafted PNG file, which triggers a buffer overflow.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5735
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5735

The upstream fix is:

https://github.com/pornel/pngquant/commit/b7c217680cda02dddced245d237ebe8c383be285

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Cheers,
Emilio