[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: libtiff-3.8.2-11.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7370
2008-09-05 10:36:51
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Name        : libtiff
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 3.8.2
Release     : 11.fc9
URL         : http://www.libtiff.org/
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:

Fixes LZW decoding vulnerabilities described in CVE-2008-2327
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Aug 26 2008 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 3.8.2-11
- Fix LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-2327)
Related: #458674
- Use -fno-strict-aliasing per rpmdiff recommendation
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #458674 - CVE-2008-2327 libtiff: use of uninitialized memory in LZW decoder
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458674
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libtiff' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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