[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libpng10-1.0.59-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-4902
2012-03-30 02:53:25
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Name        : libpng10
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.0.59
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Summary     : Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries
Description :
The libpng10 package contains an old version of libpng, a library of functions
for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format
files.

This package is needed if you want to run binaries that were linked dynamically
with libpng 1.0.x.

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Update Information:

This update includes a fix for a potential memory corruption 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 libpng10' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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