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Fedora alert FEDORA-2006-591 (libtiff)

From:  "Matthias Clasen" <mclasen@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 4 Update: libtiff-3.7.1-6.fc4.2
Date:  Thu, 25 May 2006 23:57:40 -0400

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-591 2006-05-25 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : libtiff Version : 3.7.1 Release : 6.fc4.2 Summary : A library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image files. Description : The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files. TIFF is a widely used file format for bitmapped images. TIFF files usually end in the .tif extension and they are often quite large. The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF format image files. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: The tiffsplit command contained code that handled fixed-size b uffers insecurely, possibly leading to stack overflows. This problem is fixed in the updated package. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thu May 25 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - Fix an overflow in tiffsplit (#193167) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 73ed1281022ee5e6975c2a6236cacd2cc6b76009 SRPMS/libtiff-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.src.rpm 753ce1bac3d7a00d3954301af565289ab85340c3 ppc/libtiff-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.ppc.rpm 488908a72a4fd7ad6d910c686565ea901f3bb2ba ppc/libtiff-devel-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.ppc.rpm 8b507cf6404ad821d9175f714d4f37fa8ccec411 ppc/debug/libtiff-debuginfo-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.ppc.rpm 3d9ddf121ada564ca73c76c3543129608451c452 ppc/libtiff-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.ppc64.rpm dafb5d192f15493ccffc4c569e3090a515ceaa64 x86_64/libtiff-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.x86_64.rpm cd5e7a797b6111b016f468c7b1522fbcd0e874e4 x86_64/libtiff-devel-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.x86_64.rpm 05791100a0cd2ecf10338edffe5f7a885fdaab7e x86_64/debug/libtiff-debuginfo-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.x86_64.rpm d70648ecc610abc114e2e4862448d25ecd0e5371 i386/libtiff-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.i386.rpm 9dc22bedf4e2f63c02982255b2d01fc53b67ce33 i386/libtiff-devel-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.i386.rpm d6629dea06daf751020f34fcc22ff180dfb9a7b3 i386/debug/libtiff-debuginfo-3.7.1-6.fc4.2.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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