[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: cups-1.5.0-6.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-11173
2011-08-19 15:23:41
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Name        : cups
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.5.0
Release     : 6.fc16
URL         : http://www.cups.org/
Summary     : Common Unix Printing System
Description :
The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for
UNIX® operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Products
to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users.
CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces.

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Update Information:

This update avoids a GIF reader loop (CVE-2011-2896).
This update enables CUPS by default.
This update re-introduces support for Avahi.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #727800 - CVE-2011-2896 David Koblas' GIF decoder LZW decoder buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727800
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update cups' 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
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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