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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-7417
2009-07-03 18:39:22
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Name        : libtiff
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 3.8.2
Release     : 13.fc11
URL         : 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.

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Update Information:

Fixes latest libtiff LZW decoding crash problem
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul  1 2009 Tom Lane  3.8.2-13
- Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-2285)
Related: #507465
- Update upstream URL
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #507465 - CVE-2009-2285 libtiff: LZWDecodeCompat underflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507465
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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 .

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