[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libpng-1.5.10-1.fc17
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Thu Apr 12 02:25:15 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5526
2012-04-08 16:19:26
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Name : libpng
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 1.5.10
Release : 1.fc17
URL : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Summary : A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files
Description :
The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and
manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG
is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was
created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data
compression algorithm.
Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image
files.
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Update Information:
Fix minor security issue (CVE-2011-3048)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #808139 - CVE-2011-3048 libpng: memory corruption flaw
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808139
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libpng' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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