Fedora 8 Update: libexif-0.6.16-1.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-1550
2008-02-19 02:46:29
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Name        : libexif
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 0.6.16
Release     : 1.fc8
URL         : http://libexif.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Library for extracting extra information from image files
Description :
Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with
extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library
allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a problem with endianness handling in libexif that  caused
crashes in applications.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb  5 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 0.6.16-1
- Update to 0.6.16
- Drop obsolete patch
* Tue Feb  5 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 0.6.15-6
- Convert doc files to utf-8 (#240838)
* Sat Dec 15 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 0.6.15-5
- Add patch for CVE-2007-6351. Fixes bug #425641
- Add patch for CVE-2007-6352. Fixes bug #425641
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #379561 - [Bug 466044] JPEG plug-in crashes while opening image with Olympus MakerNote (bug in libexif)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379561
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libexif' at the command line.
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