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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-9314 (gd)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: gd-2.0.35-17.fc16
Date:  Sat, 30 Jun 2012 08:36:30 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120630083631.F1C3D20F48@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-9314 2012-06-13 20:57:48 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : gd Product : Fedora 16 Version : 2.0.35 Release : 17.fc16 URL : http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page Summary : A graphics library for quick creation of PNG or JPEG images Description : The gd graphics library allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and to write out the result as a PNG or JPEG file. This is particularly useful in Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers. Note that gd is not a paint program. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is an update, that fixes insufficient input validation in _gdGetColors(). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jun 11 2012 Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com> - 2.0.35-17 - fixed CVE-2009-3546 gd: insufficient input validation in _gdGetColors() Resolves: #830745 * Tue Feb 28 2012 Honza Horak <hhorak@redhat.com> - 2.0.35-16 - Fixed AALineThick.patch to display vertical lines correctly Resolves: #798255 * Fri Jan 13 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.0.35-15 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Nov 8 2011 Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com> 2.0.35-14 - Rebuild for libpng 1.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #830745 - CVE-2009-3546 gd: insufficient input validation in _gdGetColors() [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830745 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gd' 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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