[tex-live] dvipng 1.6 build, libraries

[Frank Küster]

karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:

> Speaking of the libraries, is there a feeling about the need to update
> our copies of them, like gd, png, freetype, freetype2, type1, etc.?

I have no feelings, I just remembered that there was one libpng security
issue in October last year, causing programs to crash:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0599

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer