Friday, August 06, 2004

Flaws in Graphics Library Could Bring Attacks

Flaws in Graphics Library Could Bring Attacks:
"A researcher performing a source-code audit on a popular graphics library has found multiple security vulnerabilities in it that could be used to crash programs or execute attack code.

The PNG library (libpng) is a collection of graphics routines to manipulate PNG (portable network graphics) files. PNG (Portable Networks Graphic) is a graphics format that was designed many years ago as an alternative to the still more popular GIF format. "

…full story

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1632761,00.asp

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