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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-10081 (libtiff)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libtiff-3.9.6-1.fc17
Date:  Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:26:58 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120715212658.B4A72210E7@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-10081 2012-06-30 21:29:11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libtiff Product : Fedora 17 Version : 3.9.6 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ 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: Update to libtiff 3.9.6, and add patches for CVE-2012-2088, CVE-2012-2113 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jun 28 2012 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 3.9.6-1 - Update to libtiff 3.9.6, and add patches for CVE-2012-2088, CVE-2012-2113 Resolves: #832866 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #810551 - CVE-2012-2113 libtiff: integer overflow in tiff2pdf leading to heap-buffer overflow when reading a tiled tiff file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810551 [ 2 ] Bug #832864 - CVE-2012-2088 libtiff: Type conversion flaw leading to heap-buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832864 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libtiff' 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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