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A libtiff security update has been released for Fedora Core 2

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-576
2004-12-22
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : libtiff
Version : 3.5.7
Release : 21.fc2
Summary : A 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:

Fix several buffer overflow problems that could be used as an exploit. Fixes the following security advisory: CAN-2004-1308

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* Wed Dec 22 2004 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com

- fix some integer and buffer overflows (#143506)


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This update can be downloaded from:
[url]http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/[url]

a61d7738295e33663bd559e950a0ffe2 SRPMS/libtiff-3.5.7-21.fc2.src.rpm
0d4d9585b0efe3c2d6b12e192fba710e x86_64/libtiff-3.5.7-21.fc2.x86_64.rpm
3029673d8774199d44b86eb282be19ad x86_64/libtiff-
devel-3.5.7-21.fc2.x86_64.rpm
ef55f622015d28d2a2904237c5990c60 x86_64/debug/libtiff-
debuginfo-3.5.7-21.fc2.x86_64.rpm
d07013ed7c80369f9ad3beb6f6bd2148 x86_64/libtiff-3.5.7-21.fc2.i386.rpm
d07013ed7c80369f9ad3beb6f6bd2148 i386/libtiff-3.5.7-21.fc2.i386.rpm
c981efcef0a232cc627dec188bca76c4 i386/libtiff-
devel-3.5.7-21.fc2.i386.rpm
9292074615b4a8cde6459aa8b19d7de1 i386/debug/libtiff-
debuginfo-3.5.7-21.fc2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.