[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libtiff-3.9.5-3.fc15

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5406
2012-04-06 20:56:13
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Name        : libtiff
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 3.9.5
Release     : 3.fc15
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:

Add fix for CVE-2012-1173
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr  5 2012 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 3.9.5-3
- Add fix for CVE-2012-1173
Resolves: #CVE-2012-1173
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #803078 - CVE-2012-1173 libtiff: Heap-buffer overflow due to TileSize calculation when parsing tiff files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803078
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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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