[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: mingw32-libtiff-3.9.4-1.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-10469
2010-06-28 16:28:55
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Name        : mingw32-libtiff
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 3.9.4
Release     : 1.fc12
URL         : http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/
Summary     : MinGW Windows port of the LibTIFF library
Description :
The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image format files.  TIFF is a widely
used file format for bitmapped images.  TIFF files usually end in the
.tif extension and they are often quite large.

The libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF
format image files.

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Update Information:

Update to version 3.9.4 which fixes several bugs and some CVE's. See
http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/v3.9.4.html
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 25 2010 Erik van Pienbroek <epienbro at fedoraproject.org> - 3.9.4-1
- Update to 3.9.4
- Merged the native Fedora package changes up to 3.9.4-1
- Fixes CVE-2010-1411 (RHBZ #592361) and various other CVE's
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #592361 - CVE-2010-1411 libtiff: integer overflows leading to heap overflow in Fax3SetupState
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592361
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mingw32-libtiff' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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