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Date:      Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:21:34 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: False vuxml alarms (ImageMagick)
Message-ID:  <20040812122134.GA97233@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <5AA893E4-EC58-11D8-887A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
References:  <20040812113032.GA95675@nagual.pp.ru> <5AA893E4-EC58-11D8-887A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>

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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 02:08:42PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> It _seems_ like upgrading libpng might be enough, but lets better be 
> safe than sorry. Upgrading ImageMagick is a good idea anyway.

Upgrading libpng alone is not enough. For some bad images libpng produces 
now new errors, but ImageMagick not expect this new errors in his 
processing and continue running as in normal case. It is hard to exploit 
this with new libpng, but core dump will happen easily.

-- 
Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/



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