[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: bzip2-1.0.4-11.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-3037
2008-04-08 23:49:53
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Name        : bzip2
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 1.0.4
Release     : 11.fc7
URL         : http://www.bzip.org/
Summary     : A file compression utility
Description :
Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor.
Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities
of the best techniques available.  However, bzip2 has the added benefit
of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times
faster at decompression than those techniques.  Bzip2 is not the
fastest compression utility, but it does strike a balance between speed
and compression capability.

Install bzip2 if you need a compression utility.

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Update Information:

This update fixes bzip2 denial of service (crash) on malformed archives -
CVE-2008-1372, #438118.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr  1 2008 Ivana Varekova <varekova at redhat.com> 1.0.4-11
- fix cash on malformed archive file - CVE-2008-1372 (#438118)
  (apply upstream patch)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #438118 - CVE-2008-1372 bzip2: cash on malformed archive file
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438118
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update bzip2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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