[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: gzip-1.3.12-10.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-0964
2010-01-22 22:13:00
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Name        : gzip
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.3.12
Release     : 10.fc11
URL         : http://www.gzip.org/
Summary     : The GNU data compression program
Description :
The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression
program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension.

Gzip should be installed on your system, because it is a
very commonly used data compression program.

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Update Information:

This update fixes CVE-2009-2624 and CVE-2010-0001 vulnerabilities.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan 19 2010 Karel Klic <kklic at redhat.com> - 1.3.12-10
- fixes for CVE-2009-2624 and CVE-2010-0001
  Resolves: rhbz#557471
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #514711 - CVE-2009-2624 gzip: Missing input sanitation by decompressing dynamic Huffman code blocks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514711
  [ 2 ] Bug #554418 - CVE-2010-0001 gzip: (64 bit) Integer underflow by decompressing LZW format files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554418
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gzip' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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