[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: libtiff-4.0.3-20.fc21
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-8673
2015-05-21 13:07:49
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Name : libtiff
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 4.0.3
Release : 20.fc21
URL : http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/
Summary : Library of functions for manipulating TIFF format image files
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:
Security fix for CVE-2014-9655, CVE-2015-1547
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ChangeLog:
* Tue May 19 2015 Petr Hracek <phracek(a)redhat.com> - 4.0.3-20
- CVE-2014-9655 and CVE-2015-1547 #1190710
* Sat May 2 2015 Kalev Lember <kalevlember(a)gmail.com> - 4.0.3-19
- Rebuilt for GCC 5 C++11 ABI change
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1190703 - CVE-2014-9655 libtiff: use of uninitialized memory in
putcontig8bitYCbCr21tile and NeXTDecode
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190703
[ 2 ] Bug #1190709 - CVE-2015-1547 libtiff: use of uninitialized memory in NeXTDecode
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190709
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update 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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