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Fedora 24: 2017-03-01 Security Advisory Netpbm Critical Fixes

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Security enhancement for netpbm tackling CVE-2017-2586, CVE-2017-2587, CVE-2017-5849 with the release of version 10.77.00.
Security fix for CVE-2017-2586, CVE-2017-2587 and CVE-2017-5849, ---- Add license information file copyright_summary ---- New version of netpbm is available (10.77.00) ---- add mi...

Summary

The netpbm package contains a library of functions which support

programs for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm

(portable bitmaps), .pgm (portable graymaps), .pnm (portable anymaps),

.ppm (portable pixmaps) and others.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2017-2586, CVE-2017-2587 and CVE-2017-5849, ---- Add license information file copyright_summary ---- New version of netpbm is available (10.77.00) ---- add missing directives about bundled libraries jasper and jbigkit ---- New version of netpbm is available (10.76.00)

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security advisory Fedora security fix threat mitigation netpbm media files graphics formats

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1419650 - CVE-2017-5849 netpbm: Calls TIFFRGBA with width and height parameters switched https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1419650

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade netpbm' 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: netpbm
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 10.77.00
Release: 3.fc24
URL: https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/
Summary: A library for handling different graphics file formats

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security advisory Fedora security fix threat mitigation netpbm media files graphics formats

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