[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: libtiff-3.9.6-1.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-10089
2012-06-30 21:29:41
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Name        : libtiff
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 3.9.6
Release     : 1.fc16
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:

Update to libtiff 3.9.6, and add patches for CVE-2012-2088, CVE-2012-2113

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jun 28 2012 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 3.9.6-1
- Update to libtiff 3.9.6, and add patches for CVE-2012-2088, CVE-2012-2113
Resolves: #832866
* 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 #810551 - CVE-2012-2113 libtiff: integer overflow in tiff2pdf leading to heap-buffer overflow when reading a tiled tiff file
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810551
  [ 2 ] Bug #832864 - CVE-2012-2088 libtiff: Type conversion flaw leading to heap-buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832864
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libtiff' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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