[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: libsndfile-1.0.20-3.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-11618
2009-11-16 06:30:37
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Name        : libsndfile
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.0.20
Release     : 3.fc11
URL         : http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
Summary     : Library for reading and writing sound files
Description :
libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing sound files such as
AIFF, AU, WAV, and others through one standard interface. It can
currently read/write 8, 16, 24 and 32-bit PCM files as well as 32 and
64-bit floating point WAV files and a number of compressed formats. It
compiles and runs on *nix, MacOS, and Win32.

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Update Information:

Version 1.0.20 (2009-03-14)    * Fix potential heap overflow in VOC file parser
(Tobias Klein, http://www.trapkit.de/).    Version 1.0.19 (2009-03-02)    * Fix
for CVE-2009-0186 (Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research).    * Huge number of minor
bug fixes as a result of static analysis.    Version 1.0.18 (2009-02-07)    *
Add Ogg/Vorbis support (thanks to John ffitch).    * Remove captive FLAC
library.    * Many new features and bug fixes.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Nov 14 2009 Orcan Ogetbil <oget[dot]fedora[at]gmail[dot]com> - 1.0.20-3
- Add FLAC/Ogg/Vorbis support (BR: libvorbis-devel)
- Make build verbose
- Remove rpath
- Fix ChangeLog encoding
- Move the big Changelog to the devel package
* Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.20-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat Jun  6 2009 Lennart Poettering <lpoetter at redhat.com> - 1.0.20-1
- Updated to 1.0.20
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #488361 - CVE-2009-0186 libsndfile: overflows may lead to execution of arbitrary code
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488361
  [ 2 ] Bug #502657 - CVE-2009-1788 libsndfile VOC file heap based buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502657
  [ 3 ] Bug #502658 - CVE-2009-1791 libsndfile AIFF file heap based buffer overflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502658
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libsndfile' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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