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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57645
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:213 (chromium)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to chromium
announced via advisory MDKSA-2006:213.

Chromium is an OpenGL-based shoot them up game with fine graphics. It
is built with a private copy of libpng, and as such could be
susceptible to some of the same vulnerabilities:

Buffer overflow in the png_decompress_chunk function in pngrutil.c in
libpng before 1.2.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a
denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified
vectors related to chunk error processing, possibly involving the
chunk_name. (CVE-2006-3334)

It is questionable whether this issue is actually exploitable, but the
patch to correct the issue has been included in versions < 1.2.12.

In addition, an patch to address several old vulnerabilities has been
applied to this build. (CAN-2002-1363, CAN-2004-0421, CAN-2004-0597,
CAN-2004-0598, CAN-2004-0599)

Packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Affected: 2007.0, Corporate 3.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2006:213

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3334
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
BugTraq ID: 18698
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18698
Bugtraq: 20060719 rPSA-2006-0133-1 libpng (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440594/100/0/threaded
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-06.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:209
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:210
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:211
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:212
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:213
http://secunia.com/advisories/20960
http://secunia.com/advisories/22956
http://secunia.com/advisories/22957
http://secunia.com/advisories/22958
http://secunia.com/advisories/23335
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://secunia.com/advisories/33137
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:016 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_16_sr.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:028 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2585
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
XForce ISS Database: libpng-pngdecompresschunk-bo(27468)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27468
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