"An integer overflow in the libpng library can lead to a heap-buffer overflow when decompressing certain PNG images. This leads to a crash, which may be potentially exploitable."
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"May be potentially exploitable" is not the same as "can". Your article several times says "can".
I hate reading spam-filled "news" sites, and would rather read the original news, or insightful commentary. As this is "Hacker News", the commentary you provided was not insightful to its expected audience.
Actually the link mentioned in the post says this
"An integer overflow in the libpng library can lead to a heap-buffer overflow when decompressing certain PNG images. This leads to a crash, which may be potentially exploitable."
which may be potentially exploitable
that's what is mentioned in the post.
Also check this
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2012/02/17/mozilla-releases...
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Thanks for the comment :)