[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: libtiff-3.9.4-3.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-2540
2011-03-03 07:54:23
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Name        : libtiff
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 3.9.4
Release     : 3.fc14
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:

Fix buffer overrun in fax decoding (CVE-2011-0192) as well as a non-security-critical crash in gif2tiff.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar  2 2011 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 3.9.4-3
- Add patch for CVE-2011-0192
Resolves: #681672
- Fix non-security-critical potential SIGSEGV in gif2tiff
Related: #648820
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #678635 - CVE-2011-0192 libtiff: buffer overflow in Fax4Decode
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678635
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libtiff' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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