[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: libwebp-0.2.1-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1494
2013-01-25 20:33:25
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Name        : libwebp
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 0.2.1
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://webmproject.org/
Summary     : Library and tools for the WebP graphics format
Description :
WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital
photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a
container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser
developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital
images more efficiently.

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Update Information:

Security libwebp release, where an integer overflow allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted WebP image.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #875071 - CVE-2012-5127 libwebp: Integer overflow when processing crafted WebP image
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875071
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libwebp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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