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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-20404 (libtiff)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: libtiff-3.9.7-1.fc16
Date:  Mon, 31 Dec 2012 03:24:28 +0000
Message-ID:  <20121231032427.EFC6120A0B@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-20404 2012-12-15 17:15:14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libtiff Product : Fedora 16 Version : 3.9.7 Release : 1.fc16 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 3.9.7 (includes previously-added security fixes) - Add patches for CVE-2012-4447, CVE-2012-4564, CVE-2012-5581 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Dec 13 2012 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 3.9.7-1 - Update to libtiff 3.9.7 (includes previously-added security fixes) - Add patches for CVE-2012-4447, CVE-2012-4564, CVE-2012-5581 Resolves: #880907 * Sun Jul 22 2012 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 3.9.6-2 - Add patch for CVE-2012-3401 Resolves: #841736 * 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 * Thu Apr 5 2012 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 3.9.5-3 - Add fix for CVE-2012-1173 Resolves: #CVE-2012-1173 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #837577 - CVE-2012-3401 libtiff (tiff2pdf): Heap-based buffer overflow due to improper initialization of T2P context struct pointer https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837577 [ 2 ] Bug #860198 - CVE-2012-4447 libtiff: Heap-buffer overflow when processing a TIFF image with PixarLog Compression https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860198 [ 3 ] Bug #867235 - CVE-2012-5581 libtiff: Stack-based buffer overflow when reading a tiled tiff file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867235 [ 4 ] Bug #871700 - CVE-2012-4564 libtiff: Missing return value check in ppm2tiff leading to heap-buffer overflow when reading a tiff file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871700 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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