Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.10 / 18.04 LTS : libpng, libpng1.6 vulnerabilities (USN-3712-1)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 111040
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
Patrick Keshishian discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain PNG files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10087)
Thuan Pham discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain PNG files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-13785).
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Solution
Update the affected libpng12-0 and / or libpng16-16 packages.