[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: gzip-1.3.12-14.fc12
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Mon Feb 1 01:03:15 UTC 2010
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-0884
2010-01-22 22:11:03
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Name : gzip
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 1.3.12
Release : 14.fc12
URL : http://www.gzip.org/
Summary : The GNU data compression program
Description :
The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression
program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension.
Gzip should be installed on your system, because it is a
very commonly used data compression program.
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Update Information:
This update fixes CVE-2009-2624 and CVE-2010-0001 vulnerabilities.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Jan 19 2010 Karel Klic <kklic at redhat.com> - 1.3.12-14
- Fixed CVE-2009-2624 and CVE-2010-0001
Resolves: rhbz#557471
* Mon Nov 30 2009 Karel Klic <kklic at redhat.com> - 1.3.12-13
- Fixed silent data loss due to unchecked close of stdout (rhbz#514562)
* Fri Oct 9 2009 Ivana Varekova <varekova at redhat.com> - 1.3.12-12
- change the source tag
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #514711 - CVE-2009-2624 gzip: Missing input sanitation by decompressing dynamic Huffman code blocks
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514711
[ 2 ] Bug #554418 - CVE-2010-0001 gzip: (64 bit) Integer underflow by decompressing LZW format files
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554418
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gzip' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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