[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libtiff-3.9.6-2.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11000
2012-07-23 19:52:32
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Name        : libtiff
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 3.9.6
Release     : 2.fc17
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 security bug in tiff2pdf, CVE-2012-3401
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Jul 22 2012 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 3.9.6-2
- Add patch for CVE-2012-3401
Resolves: #841736
* 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
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #837577 - CVE-2012-3401 libtiff (tiff2pdf): Heap-based buffer overflow due to improper initialization of T2P context struct pointer
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837577
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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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