please approve / unblock libpng/1.2.35-1 Closes: 486415 516256 Changes: libpng (1.2.35-1) unstable; urgency=high . * New upstream release - http://secunia.com/advisories/33970/ Fix a vulnerability reported by Tavis Ormandy in which some arrays of pointers are not initialized prior to using "malloc" to define the pointers. Closes: #516256 - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5907 The png_check_keyword function in pngwutil.c in libpng, might allow context-dependent attackers to set the value of an arbitrary memory location to zero via vectors involving creation of crafted PNG files with keywords, related to an implicit cast of the '\0' character constant to a NULL pointer. * Don't build libpng3 when binary-indep target is not called. Closes: #486415
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