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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-4848
2009-05-12 02:51:14
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Name        : giflib
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 4.1.6
Release     : 2.fc10
URL         : https://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
Summary     : Library for manipulating GIF format image files
Description :
The giflib package contains a shared library of functions for loading and
saving GIF format image files. It is API and ABI compatible with libungif,
the library which supported uncompressed GIFs while the Unisys LZW patent
was in effect.

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Update Information:

- Update to 4.1.6 containing several upstream fixes etc.  - Solved multilib
problems with documentation (#465208, #474538)  - Removed static library from
giflib-devel package (#225796 #c1)
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ChangeLog:

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #494826 - CVE-2005-2974 giflib/libunfig: NULL pointer dereference crash
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494826
  [ 2 ] Bug #494823 - CVE-2005-3350 giflib/libunfig: memory corruption via a crafted GIF
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494823
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update giflib' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 10 Update: giflib-4.1.6-2.fc10

June 18, 2009
- Update to 4.1.6 containing several upstream fixes etc

Summary

The giflib package contains a shared library of functions for loading and

saving GIF format image files. It is API and ABI compatible with libungif,

the library which supported uncompressed GIFs while the Unisys LZW patent

was in effect.

Update Information:

- Update to 4.1.6 containing several upstream fixes etc. - Solved multilib problems with documentation (#465208, #474538) - Removed static library from giflib-devel package (#225796 #c1)

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #494826 - CVE-2005-2974 giflib/libunfig: NULL pointer dereference crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494826 [ 2 ] Bug #494823 - CVE-2005-3350 giflib/libunfig: memory corruption via a crafted GIF https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494823

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update giflib' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Severity
Name : giflib
Product : Fedora 10
Version : 4.1.6
Release : 2.fc10
URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
Summary : Library for manipulating GIF format image files

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