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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-3705 (libpng)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libpng-1.2.48-1.fc15
Date:  Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:24:05 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120331032405.896DC21C43@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-3705 2012-03-15 01:34:29 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libpng Product : Fedora 15 Version : 1.2.48 Release : 1.fc15 URL : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ Summary : A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files Description : The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm. Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image files. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to latest versions for minor security fixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sun Mar 11 2012 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 2:1.2.48-1 - Update to libpng 1.2.48, for minor security issues (CVE-2011-3045) Resolves: #801667 * Thu Feb 16 2012 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 2:1.2.46-2 - Fix CVE-2011-3026 Resolves: #791183 * Thu Jul 14 2011 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 2:1.2.46-1 - Update to libpng 1.2.46, includes fixes for CVE-2011-2501, CVE-2011-2690, CVE-2011-2691, CVE-2011-2692 Resolves: #717509 Resolves: #721307 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #799000 - CVE-2011-3045 libpng: buffer overflow in png_inflate caused by invalid type conversions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libpng' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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