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Fedora 24 Moderate: FEDORA-2016-00d2f5c19f Integer Overflow Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey November 12, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A patch for Fedora 24 has been released, targeting various integer overflows in mingw-libwebp, aiming to improve system security.
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

security advisory moderate fedora integer overflow mingw-libwebp

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 mingw-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: mingw-libwebp
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.5.1
Release: 2.fc24
URL: https://www.webmproject.org/
Summary: MinGW compilation of Library and tools for the WebP format

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora integer overflow mingw-libwebp

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