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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-1490 (libwebp)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libwebp-0.2.1-1.fc18
Date:  Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:48:11 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130203134811.4B31722152@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-1490 2013-01-25 20:32:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libwebp Product : Fedora 18 Version : 0.2.1 Release : 1.fc18 URL : http://webmproject.org/ Summary : Library and tools for the WebP graphics format Description : WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital images more efficiently. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Security libwebp release, where an integer overflow allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted WebP image. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Dec 27 2012 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.1-1 - new upstream release 0.2.1 * Fri Dec 21 2012 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> - 0.1.3-3 - rebuild against new libjpeg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #875071 - CVE-2012-5127 libwebp: Integer overflow when processing crafted WebP image https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875071 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libwebp' 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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