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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-2e5119be33
2017-11-19 23:50:05.766378
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Name : jbig2dec
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 0.14
Release : 1.fc27
URL :
http://jbig2dec.sourceforge.net/
Summary : A decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format
Description :
jbig2dec is a decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format.
JBIG2 is designed for lossy or lossless encoding of 'bilevel' (1-bit
monochrome) images at moderately high resolution, and in particular scanned
paper documents. In this domain it is very efficient, offering compression
ratios on the order of 100:1.
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Update Information:
update to 0.14 (bugfix release)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1456730 - CVE-2017-9216 jbig2dec: Null pointer dereference in
jbig2_huffman_get() [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456730
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade jbig2dec' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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