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Fedora 11 mingw32-libtiff Security Update: Critical LZW Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses recent risks found in mingw32-libtiff for Fedora 11. Apply updates to improve security and overall performance.
- update upstream URL - Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-2285)

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)

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical security fix mint32-libtiff lzw issue

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 11
Version: 3.8.2
Release: 17.fc11
URL: Summary : MinGW Windows port of the LibTIFF library

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security advisory fedora critical security fix mint32-libtiff lzw issue

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