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A libtiff security update is available for Fedora Core 2

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-597
2005-01-07
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Product : Fedora Core 2
Name : libtiff
Version : 3.5.7
Release : 22.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:

The updated libtiff package fixes an integer overflow which could lead to a buffer overflow in the tiffdump utility.


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* Wed Jan 05 2005 Matthias Clasen mclasen@redhat.com

- fix an integer overflow in tiffdump (#143576)


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

9933180e63d0bdc76c2a5e5223ff87f9 SRPMS/libtiff-3.5.7-22.fc2.src.rpm
62dc26a061c8e7f758d6886bc05f70c7 x86_64/libtiff-3.5.7-22.fc2.x86_64.rpm
f70ed86c17eb88bb4589ed66ee006517 x86_64/libtiff-
devel-3.5.7-22.fc2.x86_64.rpm
d4dd21f27505ba1fb27dc4c72f17f304 x86_64/debug/libtiff-
debuginfo-3.5.7-22.fc2.x86_64.rpm
adb4f5629d8f56922d98577cc4c4a341 x86_64/libtiff-3.5.7-22.fc2.i386.rpm
adb4f5629d8f56922d98577cc4c4a341 i386/libtiff-3.5.7-22.fc2.i386.rpm
bff086a2e2c6ac6cb3a25a70be85ccc1 i386/libtiff-
devel-3.5.7-22.fc2.i386.rpm
c90db80792a57c0d9884db2798ea8071 i386/debug/libtiff-
debuginfo-3.5.7-22.fc2.i386.rpm

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