[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libwebp-0.2.1-1.fc18
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Sun Feb 3 13:48:11 UTC 2013
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1490
2013-01-25 20:32:58
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Name : libwebp
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 0.2.1
Release : 1.fc18
URL : http://webmproject.org/
Summary : Library and tools for the WebP graphics format
Description :
WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital
photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a
container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser
developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital
images more efficiently.
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Update Information:
Security libwebp release, where an integer overflow allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted WebP image.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Dec 27 2012 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.1-1
- new upstream release 0.2.1
* Fri Dec 21 2012 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> - 0.1.3-3
- rebuild against new libjpeg
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #875071 - CVE-2012-5127 libwebp: Integer overflow when processing crafted WebP image
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875071
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libwebp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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