[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: mingw32-libtiff-3.8.2-17.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-7717
2009-07-19 03:25:12
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Name        : mingw32-libtiff
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 3.8.2
Release     : 17.fc10
URL         : http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/
Summary     : MinGW Windows port of the LibTIFF library
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:

- update upstream URL     - Fix some more LZW decoding vulnerabilities
(CVE-2009-2285)  Bugzilla: #511015
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #511015 - CVE-2009-2285 libtiff: LZWDecodeCompat underflow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511015
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