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Fedora 11 OpenEXR Critical Integer Overflow Threat CVE-2009-1720

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Essential patch for OpenEXR on Fedora 11 resolves various buffer overflow and incorrect pointer problems. Update immediately!

Summary

OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format developed by Industrial

Light & Magic for use in computer imaging applications. This package contains

libraries and sample applications for handling the format.

ChangeLog:

* Wed Jul 29 2009 Rex Dieter 1.6.1-8

- CVE-2009-1720 OpenEXR: Multiple integer overflows (#513995)

- CVE-2009-1721 OpenEXR: Invalid pointer free by image decompression (#514003)

* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.1-7

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #513995 - CVE-2009-1720 OpenEXR: Multiple integer overflows

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513995

[ 2 ] Bug #514003 - CVE-2009-1721 OpenEXR: Invalid pointer free by image decompression

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514003

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update OpenEXR' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Name: OpenEXR
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.6.1
Release: 8.fc11
Summary: A high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format

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