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Upgrade libpng to 1.6.37 (fixes vulnerability) #30564

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The libpng homepage warns:

Vulnerability Warning

libpng versions 1.6.36 and earlier have a use-after-free bug in
the simplified libpng API png_image_free(). It has been assigned
ID CVE-2019-7317.
The vulnerability is fixed in version 1.6.37,
released on 15 April 2019.

Before this ticket we have libpng 1.6.29 which
has the vulnerability. This ticket upgrades to
libpng 1.6.37 which fixes it.

Previous update: #22159 (1.6.29)

Tarball: see checksums.ini

CC: @jpflori @frederichan-IMJPRG @tscrim @slel @dimpase

Component: packages: standard

Author: Matthias Koeppe

Reviewer: Dima Pasechnik

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/30564

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