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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-7717
2009-07-19 03:25:12
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Name        : mingw32-libtiff
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 3.8.2
Release     : 17.fc10
URL         : Summary     : MinGW Windows port of the LibTIFF library
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 upstream URL     - Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities
(CVE-2009-2285)  Bugzilla: #511015
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #511015 - CVE-2009-2285 libtiff: LZWDecodeCompat underflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511015
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mingw32-libtiff' 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: mingw32-libtiff-3.8.2-17.fc10

July 19, 2009
- update upstream URL - Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-2285) Bugzilla: #511015

Summary

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.

Update Information:

- update upstream URL - Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-2285) Bugzilla: #511015

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #511015 - CVE-2009-2285 libtiff: LZWDecodeCompat underflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511015

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mingw32-libtiff' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Severity
Name : mingw32-libtiff
Product : Fedora 10
Version : 3.8.2
Release : 17.fc10
URL : Summary : MinGW Windows port of the LibTIFF library

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