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Fedora alert FEDORA-2006-592 (libtiff)

From:  "Matthias Clasen" <mclasen@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: libtiff-3.7.4-6
Date:  Thu, 25 May 2006 23:57:54 -0400

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-592 2006-05-25 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : libtiff Version : 3.7.4 Release : 6 Summary : 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 (#193166) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 0a580574b195967acd83378d3ddcadf7b59e2303 SRPMS/libtiff-3.7.4-6.src.rpm 55e8dda844bb9f68d7bd663ce5eac83a6ff29acb ppc/libtiff-3.7.4-6.ppc.rpm b86391d958198306c642d3d4b9756c3c9ccb63a2 ppc/libtiff-devel-3.7.4-6.ppc.rpm 0616963ee47905a9167e238a24d9191a40963722 ppc/debug/libtiff-debuginfo-3.7.4-6.ppc.rpm 1c075002e7093fbeff9757a57f1d4e34b12658e2 ppc/libtiff-3.7.4-6.ppc64.rpm 0d2ea6810856bd6b9cab1f943a647dc0041d3e7b x86_64/libtiff-3.7.4-6.x86_64.rpm c91e031d2ca22b1b48bb3123b5208801ba864ed0 x86_64/libtiff-devel-3.7.4-6.x86_64.rpm 91489c1bbbc3480d9f3fd0d1a7e545df44f82a85 x86_64/debug/libtiff-debuginfo-3.7.4-6.x86_64.rpm 98ffb316c93cc454bb14385f413611b4f710879f i386/libtiff-3.7.4-6.i386.rpm 1f61a0600a30d37a86ca23c648b1e151b2db5582 i386/libtiff-devel-3.7.4-6.i386.rpm 969104e127a6b393ad67f6a936c654e80d52e622 i386/debug/libtiff-debuginfo-3.7.4-6.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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