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Fedora 23 FreeImage Security Advisory 2015-16106 Critical: Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 23 FreeImage patch 2015-16106 fixes integer overflow, apply this update immediately to bolster security and improve system stability.
Update to version 3.17.0, see https://freeimage.sourceforge.io/news.html for details

Summary

FreeImage is a library for developers who would like to support popular

graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by

today's multimedia applications.

Update Information:

Update to version 3.17.0, see https://freeimage.sourceforge.io/news.html for details. This update includes a patch for CVE-2015-0852.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora integer overflow image library freeimage

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #501993 - RFE: update to 3.17.0 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501993 [ 2 ] Bug #1257860 - CVE-2015-0852 freeimage: integer overflow in PluginPCX.cpp [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257860

Update Instructions

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

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Name: freeimage
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 3.17.0
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://freeimage.sourceforge.io/
Summary: Multi-format image decoder library

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security advisory software update Fedora integer overflow image library freeimage

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