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Fedora 24: LIBWEBP Update - Critical Integer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch resolves potential buffer overflows in libjpeg, improving protection for Ubuntu 20.04 users.
This update backports an upstream patch to fix multiple integer overflows (CVE-2016-9085).

Summary

WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital

photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a

container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser

developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital

images more efficiently.

Update Information:

This update backports an upstream patch to fix multiple integer overflows (CVE-2016-9085).

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1389338 - CVE-2016-9085 libwebp: Several integer overflows https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389338

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade libwebp' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: libwebp
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.5.1
Release: 2.fc24
URL: https://www.webmproject.org/
Summary: Library and tools for the WebP graphics format

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Topics Covered

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