Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-2098 (optipng)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: optipng-0.6.2.1-1.fc9
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Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:32:13 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-2098
2009-02-26 15:02:05
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Name        : optipng
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 0.6.2.1
Release     : 1.fc9
URL         : http://optipng.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : PNG optimizer and converter
Description :
OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size,
without losing any information. This program also converts external formats
(BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to optimized PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks
and corrections.

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Update Information:

This update fixes an array overflow vulnerability.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 25 2009 Till Maas <opensource@till.name> - 0.6.2.1-1
- Update to new release to fix array overflow
- Red Hat Bugzilla #487364
* Wed Nov 12 2008 Till Maas <opensource@till.name> - 0.6.2-1
- Update to new release to fix buffer overflow
- Red Hat Bugzilla #471206
* Thu Aug 28 2008 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 0.6.1-1
- 0.6.1.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #487364 - optipng: memory re-allocation flaw in GIF reader
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487364
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update optipng' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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