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Fedora 21 LibRaw Update 8482 Critical: Ljpeg Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2015
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Recent enhancements to LibRaw on Fedora 21 tackle the dcraw issue and bolster security through critical patch updates.
Latest upstream bugfix

Summary

LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo

cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG, and others).

LibRaw is based on the source codes of the dcraw utility, where part of

drawbacks have already been eliminated and part will be fixed in future.

Update Information:

Latest upstream bugfix. Fixed dcraw vulnerability in ljpeg_start()

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Change Log

* Sat May 16 2015 Jon Ciesla - 0.16.2-1 - 0.16.2, BZ 1222258. * Thu May 14 2015 Jon Ciesla - 0.16.1-7 - Add provides for bundled dcraw, https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/530 - Fix EVR in changelog. * Mon May 11 2015 Jon Ciesla - 0.16.1-6 - 0.16.1, BZ 1220382. * Sat May 2 2015 Kalev Lember - 0.16.0-5 - Rebuilt for GCC 5 C++11 ABI change

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1222258 - LibRaw-0.16.2 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222258 [ 2 ] Bug #1220382 - LibRaw-0.16.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220382 [ 3 ] Bug #1221250 - CVE-2015-3885 LibRaw: dcraw: input sanitization flaw leading to buffer overflow [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221250

Update Instructions

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

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Name: LibRaw
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 0.16.2
Release: 1.fc21
URL: https://www.libraw.org/
Summary: Library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras

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