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Fedora 10: Important Update for mingw32-libtiff LZW Decode Issue

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important revision for mingw32-libtiff tackling issues with LZW decoding, improving protective measures on Fedora 10 platforms.
- update upstream URL - Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-2285) Bugzilla: #511015

Summary

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 upstream URL - Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-2285) Bugzilla: #511015

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora patch LZW mingw32-libtiff decoding

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #511015 - CVE-2009-2285 libtiff: LZWDecodeCompat underflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511015

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mingw32-libtiff' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mingw32-libtiff
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 3.8.2
Release: 17.fc10
URL: Summary : MinGW Windows port of the LibTIFF library

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora patch LZW mingw32-libtiff decoding

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