[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: libsndfile-1.0.17-5.el5

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Wed Aug 10 21:00:17 UTC 2011


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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-3809
2011-07-14 23:22:17
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Name        : libsndfile
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 1.0.17
Release     : 5.el5
URL         : http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
Summary     : Library for reading and writing sound files
Description :
libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing sound files such as
AIFF, AU, WAV, and others through one standard interface. It can
currently read/write 8, 16, 24 and 32-bit PCM files as well as 32 and
64-bit floating point WAV files and a number of compressed formats. It
compiles and runs on *nix, MacOS, and Win32.

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Update Information:

- fixes integer overflow by processing certain PAF audio files
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #721234 - CVE-2011-2696 libsndfile: Application crash due integer overflow by processing certain PAF audio files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=721234
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update libsndfile' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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