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Fedora 25 Freeimage Security Advisory: Critical Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch for freeimage in Fedora 25 resolves CVE-2016-5684. Get the update today!
Security fix for CVE-2016-5684

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:

Security fix for CVE-2016-5684

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora code execution image handling freeimage

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1381517 - CVE-2016-5684 freeimage: XMP Image Handling Code Execution Vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381517

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 25
Version: 3.17.0
Release: 7.fc25
URL: https://freeimage.sourceforge.io/
Summary: Multi-format image decoder library

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora code execution image handling freeimage

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