Libpng 1.6.51: Four buffer overflow vulnerabilities fixed

(openwall.com)

23 points | by ledoge 3 hours ago

3 comments

  • ziotom78 13 minutes ago
    It’s fantastic they were able to find these issues!

    That four new CVEs (two high-severity!) were found in a mature and well-tested library like png reminds me how non-trivial and unforgiving software engineering can be.

    Security flaws are often just waiting behind the corner: this should be humbling lesson for all of us.

  • applied_heat 1 hour ago
    Affects back to version 1.6.0 released Feb 14, 2013
  • lousken 1 hour ago
    rust rewrite when?
    • pornel 1 hour ago
      Chrome is already in the process of removing libpng.
      • zamadatix 49 minutes ago
        For those curious on what to instead, it seems like they made an in house Skia module (using Rust) named SkPngRustDecoder (and Encoder).