[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: libtiff-3.8.2-14.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-7724
2009-07-19 03:25:21
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Name        : libtiff
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 3.8.2
Release     : 14.fc10
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:

CVE-2009-2347 libtiff: integer overflows in various inter-color spaces
conversion tools (crash, ACE)    Not the same as last week's libtiff security
issue ...
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jul 13 2009 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 3.8.2-14
- Fix buffer overrun risks caused by unchecked integer overflow (CVE-2009-2347)
Related: #510041
* Wed Jul  1 2009 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 3.8.2-13
- Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-2285)
Related: #507465
- Update upstream URL
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #510041 - EMBARGOED CVE-2009-2347 libtiff: integer overflows in various inter-color spaces conversion tools (crash, ACE)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510041
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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